Toward the Elimination of Cancer Disparities: Medical and Health Perspectives by Howard K. Koh Details
Thesocietalburdenofcancerisoneofthemajorpublichealthchallengesofour time. Yetthatburdenisnotequallysharedbyall. Not only troubling problems are documented by ethnic / racial group but also by social class, insurance, geography, and aa. Moreover, such cases represent more than ever…
Thesocietalburdenofcancerisoneofthemajorpublichealthchallengesofour time. Yetthatburdenisnotequallysharedbyall.
Not only troubling problems are documented by ethnic / racial group but also by social class, insurance, geography, and aa. Moreover, such cases represent more than ever before in the case of departure from the independent system.
Manycreditdisparitieshport bepreventable. Fewhaveattemptedtocapturethebreadthanddepthththimimages of cancerdisparitiesfrombothclinicalaswellaspublichealthperspectives.
To addressthisneed, wepresentthisvolumeto: expanding the concepts of differences beyond the traditional discussions of race / ethnicity for autism, where, and heytyyoccur; focusoncancerdisparitiesintheUS, whilecitingsomemajorexamplesfrom abroad; analysisecertainmajormajorcancerswithrespecttodisparities, withemphasison socioeconomicposition; examinethesourcesofdisparitiesfrombothinsididoutoutidethehhh carale system; Identinitialinterventionsthatattempttoreduceandeliminatethesed- parities; and identissueststhatdeserveattentionwithrespecttofuturerearchearch. Ourmonographaddressescancerdisparitiesacrossthecontinuum (frompubention to mortality and by the domains of social inequality).
We begin by exploring broaddimensionsuchasdefinitionsofdisparities, datasystems, the roleofgenes andenvironment, andtheroleofworkandoccupationincancer varparities. Thenwemoveintospecificchallengesincancerdisparitiessuchas tobaccouseandlungcancer, breastcancer, colorectalcancer, prostatecancer, cervicalcancer, melanoma, andhepatocellularcarcinoma.
Wethenconcludewith someavenuestoaddresscancerdisparities, including policyandadvocacy, health v vi Preface communication, abocking barriers to cancer care, and community-based approach. Oureffortsarefarfromexhaustive, buttheyrepresentoneofthe firstattemptstoaddresscancerdisparitiesfromsuchacomprehensiveprpective.
Thisvolumereflectstheworkofanumberofnationalexpertsancancer varparities. Many of them are members of the Executive Committee of the Cancer Tolerance Program in the development of the Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center.
Others are also investigating the MassCONECT Community Network (Massachusetts Community NetworkstoEliminateCancerDisparitieththrough Education, Researchand Training) program. Also, these pages were updated and impacted earlier in 2005, which were published in thetopicpublishedinthejournalCancerCauses andControl.
Allauthorsare dedictothegoalofeliminatingcancerdisparitiesandIamindebted them. IamparticularlygratefultoRachelWarren, TerraZipoyrnSnider, andDr.
ClaudiaArriggfortheirunendingencouragementsupport. Itismyhope thatthismonographrepresentsanothercontributiontowardhelpingallpeople enjoytheirhighestattainablestandardofhealth.
Boston, Massa Howard. Koh, MD, MPH Contents PartI DimensionsofCancerDisparities 1 Defining, Investigating, and RecdressingCancerInequities: CriticalIssues ...
3 NancyKrieger, KarenM. Emmons, andDavidWilliams 2 CancerDisparities: DataSystems, Sources, andInterpretation ...
29 BarbaraD. Powe, AhmedinJemal, DexterCooper, andLokieHarmond 3 Genes, Environment, andCancerDisparities ...
49 AlexandraE. Shields, StephanieM.
Fullerton, andKennethOlden 4 WorkandOccupation: ImportantIndicatorsofSocioconomic PositionandLiveExperiencesInfluencingCancerDisparities ... 83 GlorianSorensen, GraceSembajwe, AmyHarley, andLisaQuintiliani PartII SpecificChallengesinCancerDisparities 5 DisparitiesTobaccoUseandLungCancer ...
109 HowardK. Koh, LorisElqura, andSarahMassinShort 6 SocioeconomicStatusandBreastCancerDisparities ...
137 SherrieFlyntWallington, OtisW. Brawley, and Michelle.
Holmes 7 DisparitiesandColorctalCancer ... 161 EricC.
Schneider 8 DisparitiesinProStateCancer ... 179 OtisW.
BrawleyandSherrieFlyntWallington vii viii Contents 9 DisparitiesandCervicalCancer ... 203 MarceladelCarmenandTeresaDiaz-Montez 10 MelanomaandPrimaryHepatocellularCarcinoma ...
227 ChristopherA. Oki, AlanGeller, andMoonS.
Chen PartIII SomeAvenuestoAddressCancerDisparities 11 Interventions, Policy, and Advocacy ... 259 DeborahKleinWalkerandChristineM.
Judge 12 HealthCommunication and Communication Indequalities inAddressingCancerDisparities ... 277 K.
ViswanathandKarenM. Emmons 13 OvercomingBarriertoCancerCare: Patientand Public Perspectives ...
299 KarenDonelan 14 Community-BasedApproachestoCancerDisparities ... 317 BarbaraGottlieb Index ...
359 Contest ChristopherA. Aoki DivisionofGastroenterologyandEepatology, DepartmentofInternalMedicine, Schoolof Medicine, Universityof California, Davis, CA OtisW.
Brawley AmericanCancerSoc
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