The role of health policy in the burden of breast cancer in Brazil

BMC Women's Health

Table 3 Correlation coefficients between breast cancer and Brazilian healthcare costs

Brazilian healthcare costs	Breast cancer^a
	Mortality* (per 100,000 people)		Incidence* (per 100,000 people)		Mortality-to-incidence
	r	p**	r	p**	r	p**
Hospital and ambulatory care	0.966	<0.001	0.917	<0.001	−0.171	0.613
Therapeutic and prophylactic care	0.919	<0.001	0.923	<0.001	−0.320	0.336
Epidemiologic surveillance	0.924	<0.001	0.872	<0.001	−0.131	0.700
Primary care	0.211	0.531	−0.010	0.975	0.540	0.085

Source: Mortality Information System (SIM) and Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS). Data made available by the Department of Informatics of the National Health System (DATASUS—http://www.datasus.gov.br), Ministry of Health, Brazil
r = Pearson’s coefficient
^aInternational classification of diseases, 10th revision. Code C50 [7]
*Age-standardized to the WHO standard population [8]
*Pearson’s correlation test

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