Outside Our Walls: the Case for City-Wide Collaboration to Reduce Disparities
Authors
Haas, Jennifer S.Lemon, Stephenie C.
Freund, Karen M.
Battaglia, Tracy A.
Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group
UMass Chan Affiliations
UMass Worcester Prevention Research CenterDivision of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Document Type
EditorialPublication Date
2020-07-27Keywords
UMCCTS fundingCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
Health Services Administration
Health Services Research
Neoplasms
Race and Ethnicity
Translational Medical Research
Women's Health
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Boston, Massachusetts (MA), is known for its world-class health care institutions and groundbreaking therapies, including cancer. Yet the unfortunate reality is that these resources do not effectively reach all city residents. In a national study examining race-specific breast cancer mortality rates in the 50 largest US cities, Boston had the fifth highest Black-White disparity in breast cancer mortality. The most recent data from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) found that the premature breast cancer mortality rate was 78% higher for Black than for White women (14.1 vs. 7.9 per 100,000).Source
Haas JS, Lemon SC, Freund KM, Battaglia TA; Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Consortium Writing Group. Outside Our Walls: the Case for City-Wide Collaboration to Reduce Disparities. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Jul 27. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06006-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32720235. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1007/s11606-020-06006-7Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/29576PubMed ID
32720235Related Resources
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10.1007/s11606-020-06006-7