Defining, Investigating, and Addressing Cancer Inequities: Critical Issues
Defining, Investigating, and Addressing Cancer Inequities: Critical Issues
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10.1007/978-0-387-89443-0_1
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2009-01-01
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Williams, David
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Krieger, Nancy;Emmons, Karen M.;Williams, David
Research and action to address social disparities in cancer require clarity about what constitutes and causes these persistent and onerous inequities in health. Currently, both scientific literature and government documents exhibit important disagreements, confused terminology, and considerable, if not deliberate, vagueness about the meaning of the phrase "cancer disparities." To help clarify what is meant by social disparities in cancer and what this means for efforts to investigate their causes and act to rectify them, this chapter offers a definition of cancer inequities that is premised on the causal contention that health inequities, by definition, arise from social inequity and considers its implications for developing a multidisciplinary research agenda for 'Investigating and addressing social inequalities in cancer. Tackling this issue will require rigorous and critical frameworks, questions, and methods derived from multiple disciplines and will necessarily involve epidemiologic, clinical, and intervention research, both quantitative and qualitative. At issue is making conscious research choices about which types of disparities we study, in relation to which aspect of cancer, so as to improve the likelihood our research will help inform a society-wide discourse about the extent of, origins of, and remedies for social injustices in cancer, thereby aiding efforts to eliminate health inequities.
