Inclusion of oral health teams in primary health care promotes early diagnosis of oral and oropharyngeal cancers: a nationwide study

Table 1 Description of outcome and exposure variables, considering the 160 municipalities analyzed

Variable	Mean (SD^a)	Median	Minimum	Maximum
Dependent variables
Size (RR^b)	0.62 (0.12)	0.62	0.25	0.90
Lymph node (RR^b)	0.55 (0.10)	0.55	0.19	0.81
Metastasis (RR^b)	0.04 (0.04)	0.03	0.00	0.27
Independent variables
Gini index	0.51 (0.06)	0.50	0.37	0.64
HDI-M^c	0.76 (0.04)	0.76	0.62	0.86
OHT^d coverage (%)	17.34 (20.32)	10.17	0.00	93.77
FHS^e coverage (%)	32.94 (24.80)	25.81	0.00	95.71
CHA^f coverage (%)	42.65 (31.22)	32.32	0.00	142.21

^aSD: Standard Deviation
^bRR: Risk ratio for the most severe diagnosis (RR = 1) at the beginning of the treatment; obtained by dividing the number of cases with late diagnosis by the number of all cases;
^cM-HDI: Municipal Human Development Index
^dOHT: Oral Health Team
^eFHS: Family Health Strategy
^fCHA: Community Health Agent

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