Addressing Health Disparities Across the Cancer Continuum-a Los Angeles Approach to Achieving Equity.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Different models have been developed to address inequities across the cancer care continuum. However, there remains a scarcity of best practices on understanding and responding to the burden of cancer in a defined catchment area.As such, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently provided a framework to maximize the impact on cancer burden, including a greater focus on community outreach and engagement. In this paper, we describe how Cedars Sinai Cancer (CSC), a health system that serves one of the most diverse counties in the US, implemented the framework to define its catchment area, characterize its population, identify high risk priority groups, and make decisions to address health disparities.

Methods

We provide a review of the methods used to assess soci

SUBMITTER: Finster LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295745 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature