Cancer disparities: unmet challenges in the elimination of disparities.

Unmet challenges in cancer disparities--letter.

As recently reviewed by Gehlert and Colditz, cancer disparities in race and ethnicity are well recognized (1). We agree that much less is known about other population groups included in the definition of health disparities (2) and would like to add our observations on underserved whites in non-agrarian rural communities. Of the U.S. population, 59 million (21%) who live in rural America commonl...

A Mathematical Programing Model of Budget Allocation for Development Disparities Reduction among Iran Provinces

The issues of disparities, regional imbalance development and attempt to reducing development disparities among various regions have been attracted considerable attention among researchers, planners and policy makers. In this regard, this study employs a mathematical programing model for budget resources allocation among Iran provinces in order to development disparities reduction among them. I...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Tabriz Intra-urban Spatial Disparities

To achieve sustainable urban development and values from social justice; it is essential that all citizens enjoy resources, facilities and life opportunities equally. Due to lack of a stable or systematic approach of measuring urban problems, disparity in environmental conditions or access to social and physical infrastructures is more obvious, especially in the cities of developing countries. ...

The Role of Stage at Diagnosis in Colorectal Cancer Black-White Survival Disparities: A Counterfactual Causal Inference Approach.

BACKGROUND To date, a counterfactual framework has not been used to study determinants of social inequalities in cancer. Considering the case of colorectal cancer, for which racial/ethnic differences in stage at diagnosis and survival are well documented, we quantify the extent to which black versus white survival disparities would be reduced had disparities in stage at diagnosis been eliminate...