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Spatially exploring the intersection of socioeconomic status and Canadian cancer-related medical crowdfunding campaigns.

Alysha van DuynhovenAnthony LeeRoss MichelJeremy SnyderValorie CrooksPeter Chow-WhiteNadine Schuurman
Published in: BMJ open (2019)
These findings support concerns that those in positions of relative socioeconomic privilege disproportionately use crowdfunding to address health-related needs. This study was not able to determine whether other socioeconomic dimensions such as race, gender, ethnicity, nationality and linguistic fluency are also correlated with use of medical crowdfunding. Thus, we call for further research to explore the relationship between socioeconomic variables and medical crowdfunding campaigning to explore these other socioeconomic variables and campaigns for needs unrelated to cancer.
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