Health

In a recently published paper about improving cancer care on a national level, experts zeroed in on the “inequities in healthcare that exist across the entire cancer care continuum and are disproportionately affecting medically underserved populations who may encounter cultural, linguistic, economic, and other barriers to care.” According to the authors, these disparities exist for a variety of reasons: social determinants of health, provider implicit bias, insurance coverage, and lack of standardized care.

To help increase quality cancer care in historically underserved communities, the co-authors — one of whom was Evelyn González, senior director of community outreach at Fox Chase Cancer Center — developed a framework of strategies and recommendations for both addressing and decreasing cancer care disparities nationwide. | From Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)