Open AccessSocial Determinants of Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality Among Black and White Women
Author(s) -
Oluwole Adeyemi Babatunde,
Jan M. Eberth,
Tisha M. Felder,
Robert Moran,
Samantha Truman,
James R. Hébert,
Jiajia Zhang,
Swann Arp Adams
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.644
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2197-3792
pISSN - 2196-8837
DOI - 10.1007/s40615-020-00766-y
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , demography , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , gerontology , epidemiology , black women , health equity , cancer , public health , confidence interval , sociology , gender studies , nursing
Mortality from breast cancer among Black women is 60% greater than that of White women in South Carolina (SC). The aim of this study was to assess racial differences in mortality among Black and White breast cancer patients based on variations in social determinants and access to state-based early detection programs.