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Female Cancer Mortality and Health Insurance in major US cities

Hypotheses:

  1. Females are better insured than men
  2. Females have a lower cancer mortality rate than men

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Joanna Kinga Gontarek, Slack: @JoKi

Dataset: BCHI - bchi.bigcitieshealth.org

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The dataset contains various health indicators for males and females in major US cities

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Using R to retrieve the data for the indicators

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Females are less frequently uninsured and die less frequently of cancer

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But the percentage of uninsured population and the cancer mortality rate don’t seem to correlate

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Wrap-Up and further work

There is an indication, that in major us cities females are less frequently uninsured and less likely to die of cancer. However, it is not clear if health insurance and cancer mortality are related. Further research is required on these issues, for which the BCHI dataset provides a good basis.

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