Eliminating cancer disparities

Counties eliminating racial disparities in colorectal cancer mortality.

BACKGROUND Although colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rates are declining, racial-ethnic disparities in CRC mortality nationally are widening. Herein, the authors attempted to identify county-level variations in this pattern, and to characterize counties with improving disparity trends. METHODS The authors examined 20-year trends in US county-level black-white disparities in CRC age-adjusted ...

Eliminating disparities in pain management.

Not all patients are treated equally for their pain with some therefore being undertreated. Discrepancies still exist in the way physicians treat special populations of patients such as racial minorities, women, and substance abusers. All healthcare providers need to be aware of the not so readily apparent disparities resulting from stereotyping, bias, ageism, and socioeconomic considerations. ...

Approaches to Eliminating Sociocultural Disparities in Health

The recent flurry of studies documenting the presence of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care and health have outpaced articles that describe effective strategies to eliminate disparities. Through literature review and informal interviews with research, policy, and program experts, we developed a framework of programs that address disparities through targeting clinicians...

Preventing Hepatitis B-induced Liver Cancer: Implications for Eliminating Health Disparities.

If the definition of eliminating of a health disparity were signified by the absence of any differences in incidence or mortality between a population's experiences with a health problem, then the only health disparity that has ever been eliminated is smallpox because with zero cases of smallpox in the world, no health disparities exist because of smallpox. The eradication of smallpox is perhap...

ELImINATINg DISPARITIES IN CARE Case Study: Preventing, Diagnosing and Treating Breast Cancer in minority Populations