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Structural bigotry was connected with increased county-level cancer death rates amongst minority populations compared to whites, according to outcomes provided at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held September 29– October 2, 2023.
“Applying procedures that try to catch the numerous and intensifying methods bigotry provides in policies, laws, and practices at a population level demonstrates how bigotry manifests beyond social interactions to adversely affect cancer results,” stated speaker Joelle N. Robinson-Oghogho, Ph.D., MPH, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society. “Studying the effect of structural bigotry on cancer results enables us to even more comprehend the consistent racial variations in cancer and expand our scope of intervention.”
Robinson-Oghogho and coworkers checked out the association in between structural bigotry and cancer death rates in 1,026 U.S. counties and examined whether this association varied by race amongst non-Hispanic Black, white, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native populations.
The scientists utilized openly offered information on 2015– 2019 cancer death rates from the U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualization Tool and gotten info on elements related to cancer death rates from the 2019 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2006– 2010 Environmental Quality Index report, and 2015– 2019 price quotes from the U.S. Census American Community Survey.
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