Abstract IA52: Tools for assessing social determinants of health

In 2017, AACR, ASCO, ACS, and NCI published a statement stemming from a think tank on the future of research in cancer health disparities. This statement, published in several leading oncology journals, offered recommendations in five areas for advancing cancer health disparities research. This presentation will review the recommendations for the area “defining measures and tools for the next generation of cancer health disparities research,” describe efforts to standardize data collection for social determinants of health, and explore emerging methodologic challenges in the measurement of social determinants in cancer health disparities research.

Citation Format: Scarlett Lin Gomez. Tools for assessing social determinants of health [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2018 Nov 2-5; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020;29(6 Suppl):Abstract nr IA52.