Linking of Primary Care Records to Census Data to Study the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Cancer Incidence in Southern Europe: A Nation-Wide Ecological Study

• Maria Garcia-Gil ,

  * E-mail: mgarcia@idiapjgol.info

  Affiliations Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain, Translab Research Group, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Catalunya, Spain

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• Josep-Maria Elorza,

  Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

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• Marta Banque,

  Affiliation Cancer Prevention Unit and Cancer Registry, Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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• Marc Comas-Cufí,

  Affiliation Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

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• Jordi Blanch,

  Affiliation Research Unit, Family Medicine, Girona, Spain, and Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

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• Rafel Ramos,

  Affiliation Primary Care Services, Girona, Spain, and Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), Catalunya, Spain

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• Leonardo Méndez-Boo,

  Affiliation Primary Care Information System, Catalan Institute of Health (ICS), Catalunya, Spain

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• Eduardo Hermosilla,

  Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

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• Bonaventura Bolibar,

  Affiliation Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain

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• Daniel Prieto-Alhambra

  Affiliations Jordi Gol Institute for Primary Care Research (IDIAP Jordi Gol), Catalunya, Spain, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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