Given the movement towards value-based purchasing in the United States, health care
leaders need methods to characterize and address the complex effect that social …

Despite the significant body of research on social determinants of health (SDH) and
mortality, limited knowledge is available on the epidemiology of aggregated Latino health …

Background Social isolation is an important determinant of all-cause mortality, with evidence
suggesting an association with cancer-specific mortality as well. In this study, we examined …

Mediation analysis allows the examination of effects of a third variable in the pathway
between an exposure and an outcome. The general multiple mediation analysis method …

Purpose Early diagnosis is fundamental to reducing breast cancer (BC) mortality, and
understanding potential barriers from initial screening to confirmed diagnosis is essential …

Cancer is a major concern among chronic diseases today. Spatial epidemiology plays a
relevant role in this matter and we present here a review of this subject, including a …

Socio-economic and geographical inequalities in breast cancer mortality have been widely
described in European countries and the United States. To investigate the combined effects …

Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are more common among African-ancestry
populations, such as African Americans and western, sub-Saharan Africans, compared with …

Purpose There is a breast cancer mortality gap adversely affecting Black women in the
United States. This study assessed the relationship between number of days between …

OBJECTIVE. Mobile mammography units have increasingly been used to address patient
health care disparities; however, there are limited data comparing mobile units to stationary …