Spatiotemporal analysis of HPV vaccination and associated neighborhood-level disparities in Texas—an ecological study
Ryan Ramphul,
Abigail S. Zamorano,
Saswati Upadhyay
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundHPV is responsible for most cervical, oropharyngeal, anal, vaginal, and vulvar cancers. The HPV vaccine has decreased cervical cancer incidence, but only 49% of Texas adolescents have initiated the vaccine. Texas shows great variation in HPV vaccination rates. We used geospatial analysis to identify areas with high and low vaccination rates and explored differences in neighborhood characteristics.MethodsUsing Anselin’s Local Moran’s I statistic, we conducted an ecological analysis of hot and cold spo… Show more
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