Social-Environmental Injustice and Cancer Screening Prevalence

Kilan C Ashad-Bishop; Daniel Wiese; Jordan A Baeker Bispo; Margaret Katana Ogongo; Farhad Islami; Priti Bandi

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.33724

Social-Environmental Injustice and Cancer Screening Prevalence

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2433724. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.33724.

Authors

Kilan C Ashad-Bishop¹, Daniel Wiese², Jordan A Baeker Bispo², Margaret Katana Ogongo², Farhad Islami², Priti Bandi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
² Department of Surveillance and Health Equity Science, American Cancer Society, Georgia, Atlanta.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study characterizes the prevalence of cancer screening across geographic clusters of social risk factors, environmental burden, and compounded social-environmental injustice in densely-populated urban areas of the US.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Early Detection of Cancer* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms / diagnosis
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Prevalence
Social Environment
Social Justice
United States / epidemiology