The Intersection of Rural Residence and Minority Race/Ethnicity in Cancer Disparities in the United States
| Autor: | Radhika Ranganathan, Anja Zgodic, Whitney E. Zahnd, Heather M. Brandt, Parthenia Luke, Marie Knoll, Kewei Shi, Gabriel A Benavidez, Kelsey R Day, Melinda A. Merrell, Cathryn Murphy, Elizabeth Crouch, Jan M. Eberth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Rural Population
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group lcsh:Medicine Review Racism Health Services Accessibility 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Rurality cancer disparities racial/ethnic minorities Neoplasms Health care Ethnicity Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Social determinants of health Sociology Healthcare Disparities cancer outcomes Minority Groups media_common access to care Poverty business.industry lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health United States Black or African American 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis social determinants of health cancer surveillance Implementation research rural Rural area business Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1384, p 1384 (2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| ISSN: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | One in every twenty-five persons in America is a racial/ethnic minority who lives in a rural area. Our objective was to summarize how racism and, subsequently, the social determinants of health disproportionately affect rural racial/ethnic minority populations, provide a review of the cancer disparities experienced by rural racial/ethnic minority groups, and recommend policy, research, and intervention approaches to reduce these disparities. We found that rural Black and American Indian/Alaska Native populations experience greater poverty and lack of access to care, which expose them to greater risk of developing cancer and experiencing poorer cancer outcomes in treatment and ultimately survival. There is a critical need for additional research to understand the disparities experienced by all rural racial/ethnic minority populations. We propose that policies aim to increase access to care and healthcare resources for these communities. Further, that observational and interventional research should more effectively address the intersections of rurality and race/ethnicity through reduced structural and interpersonal biases in cancer care, increased data access, more research on newer cancer screening and treatment modalities, and continued intervention and implementation research to understand how evidence-based practices can most effectively reduce disparities among these populations. |
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