Advancing community-academic partnerships to achieve breast health equity: Applying the community-based participatory model to build capacity for sustained impact.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This formative study leveraged a community-academic partnership to identify barriers to care that are potential sources of breast cancer disparities in Black women. Through this partnership and using a community-based participatory research approach, the objective was to develop a community task force to inform future interventions aimed at addressing breast cancer disparities and increasing health equity.

Methods

The authors assessed gaps in care related to breast cancer in Buffalo, New York, by collecting and analyzing qualitative data from focus groups and interviews with breast cancer survivors and breast navigation groups assessing barriers and facilitators across the cancer care continuum. Then, community-based participatory research approaches were used to

SUBMITTER: Glaser KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10513749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature