Toward the Elimination of Cancer Disparities Medical and Health Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Koh, Howard K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89443-0

The societal burden of cancer is one of the major public health challenges of our time, yet that burden is not equally shared by all. Troubling disparities have been documented not only by racial/ethnic group but also by social class, insurance status, geography, and a host of other factors. Further...

Table of Contents:

• Cancer Disparities: Definitions, Methodology and Conceptual Frameworks
• Cancer Disparities: Data systems, Sources and Interpretation
• Genomics and Cancer Disparities
• Viewing Cancer Disparities from within and outside of the Health Care System
• Poverty and Socioeconomic Position: A Major Driver of Cancer Disparities
• Obesity and Cancer Disparities
• Lung Cancer and Tobacco Addiction
• Disparities and Breast Cancer
• Disparities and Colorectal Cancer
• Disparities and Prostate Cancer
• Cervical Cancer
• Other Cancers, including Melanoma and Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Policy and Advocacy
• Health Communication and Dissemination
• CommunityBased Approaches.