Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Where people live, work, and play can significantly impact their health and health care provision, including cancer screening, prevalence, and mortality outcomes, but how do we know which factors should be targets for intervention?While national cancer incidence and mortality rates have improved over time, these benefits have not been evenly distributed across social demographics and This effort created a unique dataset that encompasses aspects of health behaviors and lifestyle and health, socioeconomic, environmental, race and ethnicity, and health care access that reflects the multifactorial, multilevel nature of these differences.4,5 The variances characterized in this study provide insight into the complex interplay of factors associated with these cancer outcome measures.The heterogeneity in the relative importance of these factors across cancer types and nonclinical measures, such as socioeconomics, health behaviors, and race, supports the notion that the social and environmental contexts in which people receive cancer care remain important.6 Furthermore, these results show that understanding the drivers of cancer outcomes specific to the +
Source: JAMA Network Open
Authors: Jason Goodloe, Samuel L. Washington
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W4415478479