Culture, community, and cancer: understandings of breast cancer from a non-lived experience among women living in Soweto.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individual perceptions, socio-cultural beliefs and health system factors are key determinants of people's health seeking behavior and are widely cited as the causes of delayed breast cancer diagnosis among women from structurally vulnerable settings. Asking: "how do women with a non-lived experience of cancer understand the disease and, what informs their health seeking behaviors?", we qualitatively explored, individual, sociocultural and health system elements from a conceptual model derived from the Socioecological, Health Belief and Cancer Stigma Frameworks, to understand perspectives of breast cancer in a South African urban community setting.

Methods

Using a deductive approach and allowing new themes to emerge inductively, we investigated phenomenologically,

SUBMITTER: Malope SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11539428 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature