Gender and racial inequalities in trends of oral cancer mortality in Sao Paulo, Brazil

摘要: OBJECTIVE: To analyse recent trends in oral cancer mortality, focusing specifically on differences concerning gender and race. METHODS: Official information deaths population the city of Sao Paulo, 2003 to 2009, were used estimate mortality rates from (C00 C10, International Classification Diseases, 10th Revision), adjusted for age stratified by (females males) race (blacks whites). The Prais-Winsten auto-regression procedure was time series. RESULTS: During study period, 8,505 individuals living Paulo died cancer. Rates increased females (rate yearly increase = 4.4%, 95%CI 1.4;7.5), levelled off men, which represents an inversion previous among genders city. Increases identified blacks, with a high rate 9.1% (95%CI 5.5;12.9), whites. Oral blacks almost doubled during surpassed whites all categories. CONCLUSIONS: Mortality presented higher women than it backs. surveillance across racial groups may contribute implementing socially appropriate health policies, concurrently reduce burden disease attenuation unfair, avoidable unnecessary inequalities health.