State-Level Tax Policy, Cancer Screening, and Mortality Rates in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Healthy People 2030 initiative has set national cancer screening targets for breast, colon, and cervical cancers, as well as aims for reducing cancer mortality. State-level tax policy is an underappreciated social determinant of health that may improve cancer screening and mortality rates.

Objective

To define the association of tax revenue and tax progressivity with state-level cancer screening and mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This ecologic, population-based, cross-sectional study assessed cancer screening (2020 and 2022) and mortality rates (1999-2021) in the US relative to state-level tax revenue (1997-2019) and tax progressivity (2002, 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2018) with a 2-year lag. The study included 50 states through 23 years with st

SUBMITTER: Chatzipanagiotou OP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12048849 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature