Abstract IA13: Understanding cancer disparities in mortality and survivorship and social and built environments

Neighborhoods have been shown to influence health outcomes through a number of pathways--environmental exposures, material deprivation (e.g., inadequate housing), psychosocial mechanisms (e.g., stress and social support), health behaviors (e.g., physical activity, smoking, diet), and access to resources--factors that likely impact mortality and survivorship after a cancer diagnosis. Using data from the California Neighborhoods Data System to characterize the social and built environments, this presentation will include findings from two studies examining associations between neighborhood and cancer mortality as well as health-related quality of life across diverse populations. In addition, this presentation will highlight methods for characterizing the social and built environments for cancer outcomes studies, including the use of latent class analyses for developing neighborhood archetypes. Assessing the impact of the social and built environments on cancer outcomes is the first step towards accounting for and addressing neighborhood context in cancer-survivorship trajectories.

Citation Format: Salma Shariff-Marco. Understanding cancer disparities in mortality and survivorship and social and built environments [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Tenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2017 Sep 25-28; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2018;27(7 Suppl):Abstract nr IA13.