The Intersection of Rural Residence and Minority Race/Ethnicity in Cancer Disparities in the United States

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Parthenia Luke¹  Marie Knoll²  KelseyR. Day³  JanM. Eberth⁴  Kewei Shi⁴  ElizabethL. Crouch⁴  Radhika Ranganathan⁴  GabrielA. Benavidez⁴  Anja Zgodic⁴  Cathryn Murphy⁴  WhitneyE. Zahnd⁴  MelindaA. Merrell⁴  HeatherM. Brandt⁵ 

[1] College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;Rural & Minority Health Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29210, USA;St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA;

关键词: rural;    racial/ethnic minorities;    cancer disparities;    access to care;    social determinants of health;    cancer surveillance;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph18041384

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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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