Housing assistance among patients with cancer: SEER-Medicare US Department of Housing and Urban Development data linkage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lack of stable, affordable housing is an important social determinant of health. Federal housing assistance may buffer against housing vulnerabilities among low-income households, but research examining the association of housing assistance and cancer care has been limited. We introduce a new linkage of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program-Medicare and US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative data.

Methods

Individuals enrolled in HUD public and assisted housing programs between 2006 and 2021 were linked with cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 identified in the SEER-Medicare data from 16 states using Match*Pro (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD) probabilistic linkage software. HUD administrative data in

SUBMITTER: Pollack CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308178 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature