1st Edition
Cancer and Elders of Color: Opportunities for Reducing Health Disparities Evidence Review and Recommendations for Research and Policy
By John A. Capitman
Copyright 2005
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2005. The prevention, detection and treatment of cancer has received enormous scientific and clinical attention in the US and in other developed countries. However, there has been no comprehensive review of the racial/ethnic disparities in cancer among elders, nor the opportunities for cancer prevention within the Medicare population. In this important work, John A.... Read more
Contents: Racial/ethnic cancer disparities: a Medicare policy challenge; Racial/ethnic cancer disparities: conceptual frameworks; Cancer risk factors and racial/ethnic disparities; Race/ethnicity and primary prevention of cancers in elders; Racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer; Race/ethnicity and cervical cancer; Racial/ethnic disparities in colorectal, lung and prostate cancer; Emerging interventions to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in cancer; Opportunities for reducing cancer disparities: new directions for Medicare; Index.
Biography
John A. Capitman
