Mapping Cancer for Community Engagement
Mapping Cancer for Community Engagement
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DOI：
10.1177/1479972308099206
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Rushton, Gerard
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作者：
Beyer, Kirsten M. M.;Rushton, Gerard
IntroductionTwo研究策略可能会减少健康差距：社区参与和地理信息系统的使用。当与社区参与相结合时，地理信息系统方法，如创建疾病地图，将疾病率与社区背景联系起来，可以促进减少健康差距的行动。然而，目前的疾病绘图方法往往侧重于显示政治或行政单位的疾病发生率。这种类型的地图没有提供足够的信息，当地的癌症发病率，从事社区参与解决差距。MethodsWe与研究人员和癌症预防和控制的从业者，并使用自适应空间滤波创建地图，显示连续的表面表示的比例，所有结直肠癌的情况下，诊断在晚期。我们还创建了地图，显示结直肠癌的发病率。ResultsOur地图显示不同的癌症模式及其与社区环境的关系。这些地图可在互联网上向公众提供，并通过爱荷华州财团的综合癌症控制partners. ConclusionCommunity-participating研究方法的活动正变得越来越普遍，因为地理编码数据的可用性和使用地理信息系统来绘制疾病。如果研究人员和从业人员要让社区参与探索癌症发病率，就应该制作准确表示癌症并将其置于背景中的地图，以便对熟悉当地特点的人有用。
IntroductionTwo research strategies may reduce health disparities: community participation and the use of geographic information systems. When combined with community participation, geographic information systems approaches, such as the creation of disease maps that connect disease rates with community context, can catalyze action to reduce health disparities. However, current approaches to disease mapping often focus on the display of disease rates for political or administrative units. This type of map does not provide enough information on the local rates of cancer to engage community participation in addressing disparities.MethodsWe collaborated with researchers and cancer prevention and control practitioners and used adaptive spatial filtering to create maps that show continuous surface representations of the proportion of all colorectal cancer cases diagnosed in the late stage. We also created maps that show the incidence of colorectal cancer.ResultsOur maps show distinct patterns of cancer and its relationship to community context. The maps are available to the public on the Internet and through the activities of Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control partners.ConclusionCommunity-participatory approaches to research are becoming more common, as are the availability of geo-coded data and the use of geographic information systems to map disease. If researchers and practitioners are to engage communities in exploring cancer rates, maps should be made that accurately represent and contextualize cancer in such a way as to be useful to people familiar with the characteristics of their local areas.