Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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Trend in mortality from stomach cancer in urban and rural areas in Spain, 2003-2019
Almudena Moreno and Enrique Regidor
ABSTRACT:
The objective of this study is to estimate the trend in mortality from stomach cancer in rural and urban areas between 2003 and 2019 in Spain. We selected deaths from stomach cancer with code C16 from the International Classification of Diseases tenth revision (ICD-10)) The population and the number of deaths according to the age, sex and population size of the municipality of residence have been obtained from the National Institute of Statistics. The size of the municipality of residence has been grouped into three categories: less than 10.000 inhabitants (rural areas), between 10.000 and 100.000 inhabitants (small urban areas) and more than 100.000 inhabitants (large urban areas). In each area we have calculated the average annual percentage change in mortality rate using linear regression. The logarithm of the rate has been used as a dependent variable. Between 2003 and 2019 the APCM in mortality rate from stomach cancer in large urban, small urban and rural areas was respectively -2,9%, -3,0% and -2,6% in men, and -2,6%, -2,6% and 2,4% in women. Rural areas showed a smaller decrease in mortality from stomach cancer than urban areas in both sexes.
keywords: mortality; rural; Spain; stomach cancer; urban