Impacts of Sociodemographic Factors, Screening, and Organization of Health Services on Breast Cancer Mortality in Brazil: An Ecological Study of 20 Years

Table 1

Correlation between mortality rate with screening, primary healthcare coverage, and procedures of diagnosis.

	North	Northeast	Southeast	South	Midwest
Primary care coverage
	to 0.9703	to 0.9774	to 0.9677	to 0.9774	to 0.9730
	Family health strategy coverage
to 0.9896		to 0.9751	to 0.9758	to 0.9866	to 0.9936
Bilateral mammography for screening
	to 0.8658	to 0.8681	to 0.6962	to 0.5199	to 0.7377
	Bilateral breast ultrasound
to 0.8804		to 0.8478	to 0.9901	to 0.9901	to 0.9536
Anatomopathological examination of the breast—biopsy
	to 0.8411	to 0.9068	to 0.9559	to 0.9854	to 0.9444
	Cytopathological examination of the breast
to 0.9642		to 0.7317	to -0.2381	to -0.3400	to -0.2858

Statistical difference (). P: Pearson’s ; S: Spearman’s . High correlation: P or . Moderate correlation: P or S 0.34 to 0.66. Low correlation: P or .