Cancer disparities in the context of rurality: risk factors and screening across various U.S. rural classification codes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Prior cancer research is limited by inconsistencies in defining rurality. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of cancer risk factors and cancer screening behaviors across various county-based rural classification codes, including measures reflecting a continuum, to inform our understanding of cancer disparities according to the extent of rurality.

Methods

Using an ecological cross-sectional design, we examined differences in cancer risk factors and cancer screening behaviors from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey (2008-2013) across rural counties and between rural and urban counties using four rural-urban classification codes for counties and county-equivalents in 2013: U.S. Office of Management a

SUBMITTER: Hirko KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9811397 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature