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Description of census-tract-level social determinants of health in cancer surveillance data.

Manami BhattacharyaKathleen A CroninTracey L FarriganAmy E KennedyMandi YuShobha Srinivasan
Published in: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs (2024)
This article introduces the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results specialized dataset, which contains census-tract-level social determinants measures, including persistent poverty, rurality, SES quintile, and race and ethnicity. We demonstrate the capacity of these variables for use in producing trends and analyses focusing on cancer health disparities. Analyses may inform interventions and policy changes that improve cancer outcomes among populations living in disadvantaged areas, such as persistent-poverty tracts.
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