Modern Segregation in US Worsens Cancer Outcomes
January 2, 2023
In a newly published JAMA Oncology paper, researchers find that people living in US counties with higher levels of racial and socioeconomic segregation face a 20% increase in mortality rates. This effect was more pronounced in lung cancer, with mortality rates spiking by 50% in the most segregated counties.
According to the American Cancer Society, “For the study, researchers examined county-level sociodemographic data linked with mortality data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics from 2015-2019. The scientists found that residential racial and economic segregation, measured by the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE), was associated with cancer mortality at the county level in the United States.”
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(Source: Cancer Health, December 30th, 2022)
