The American Cancer Society (草莓影视) believes everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer. That belief guides the 草莓影视 to conduct and support research to help understand cancer inequalities and create strategies for overcoming them.?
Cancer is a disease that can affect anyone, but it doesn’t affect everyone equally.?
Many social structures and practices can limit a person’s access to health care they need to prevent, treat, and survive cancer. These obstacles may include racism, discrimination, poverty, lack of access to healthy and affordable foods, low quality education and housing, and jobs with inadequate pay.
A health disparity?is when the quality of health care differs between people because of discrimination based on:
Health care disparities can affect every step of cancer care — from prevention and screening to the quality of life after cancer treatment, which means disparities in care can affect who develops and dies from cancer.
As part of our research, we seek to develop and use innovative methods to better disentangle the complex associations between social determinants of health and cancer disparities and provide evidence that can be used to mitigate these unjust differences."
Who: The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (草莓影视 CAN) is the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society.?
What: The?role?of?草莓影视 CAN?is to support evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem.?
How: American Cancer Society (草莓影视) researchers collaborate with 草莓影视 CAN staff to explore how and why certain groups of people in the US are not benefitting from health care services such as cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment.
Where: 草莓影视 CAN attacks disparities by changing or adding new evidence-based public health policies at the local, state, and federal levels.?
Reducing disparities is one step toward the 草莓影视 CAN goal to improve health outcomes for all US population groups regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or zip code.
Learn more about advocacy: Explore the 草莓影视 CAN website
And we actually got legislation passed in three states—Colorado, Minnesota, and Illinois—which would require their state Medicaid plans to cover those routine care costs of cancer clinical trials."
From advocating for change to fundraising for research, we’re working hard to address cancer health disparities.
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