Real wage growth in the U.S. health workforce and the narrowing of the gender pay gap.

Background: Healthcare has been identified as a job engine during recent recessions in the U.S. Whether the healthcare sector provides better than average pay remains a question.

The Relationship Between the Supply of Primary Care Physicians and Measures of Breast Health Service Use.

Background: To investigate whether women are more likely to report receipt of a mammography recommendation from a doctor or mammography use if they reside in primary care service areas (PCSAs) having a greater number of clinically active primary care physicians.

Materials And Methods: The analysis used a nationally representative sample of women, aged 40 years and above (n = 10,706 unweighted respondents), extracted from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey. The restricted geocoded addresses of the respondents were linked to PCSA data on physician density at a secure research data center.

Significance of increasing poverty levels for determining late-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 1990 and 2000.

We examine the association between late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and residential poverty in Detroit, Atlanta, and San Francisco in 1990 and 2000. We tested whether residence in census tracts with increasing levels of poverty were associated with increased odds of a late-stage diagnosis in 1990 and 2000 and found that it was. To test this, we linked breast cancer cases from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cancer registries with poverty data from the census.

The importance of place of residence in predicting late-stage diagnosis of breast or cervical cancer.

We tested whether inner-city women were at significantly increased risk of late-stage cancer diagnosis because they resided in extremely poor and socially isolated neighborhoods or in neighborhoods meeting the federal definition of a medically underserved area (MUA). Cancer registry data on women in three American cities were matched to Census data. Using logistic regression we found that residence in economically and socially distressed or medically underserved neighborhoods tended to increase the likelihood of late-stage cancer diagnoses.