ArticleJournal of health disparities research and practice2018
Combining Community-Engaged Research with Group Model Building to Address Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality and Treatment.
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- The use of participatory systems mapping as a research method in the context of non-communicable diseases and risk factors: a scoping review.Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
- Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health.Annual review of public health · 2022Review
- Use of a community advisory board to build equitable algorithms for participation in clinical trials: a protocol paper for HoPeNET.BMJ health & care informatics · 2022Article
- Assessing health disparities in breast cancer incidence burden in Tennessee: geospatial analysis.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Understanding Mechanisms Driving Family Homeless Shelter Use and Child Mental Health.Journal of social service research · 2021Article
- A National Study of Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Disparities: A Latent Class Analysis Using SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Registries.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Looking beyond the Lamppost: Population-Level Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Novel participatory methods for co-building an agent-based model of physical activity with youth.PloS one · 2020Article
- Community-based system dynamics modelling of stigmatized public health issues: Increasing diverse representation of individuals with personal experiences.Systems research and behavioral scienceArticle
- First Eight Years: A Case Study of Starting a Social System Design Lab.System dynamics reviewArticle
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Abstract
Although patterns of African American and white women breast cancer incidence and mortality in St. Louis, Missouri is consistent with those seen elsewhere in the United States, rates vary greatly across zip codes within the city of St. Louis. North St. Louis, whose neighborhoods are primarily African American, exhibits rates of breast cancer mortality that are among the highest in the city and the state as a whole. Based on information that up to 50% of women in North St. Louis with a suspicious diagnosis of breast cancer never enter treatment, we conducted three 2-hour group model building sessions with 34 community stakeholders (e.g., breast cancer survivors or family members or caregivers and community support members such as navigators) to identify the reasons why African American women do not begin or delay breast cancer treatment. Participant sessions produced a very rich and dynamic causal loop diagram of the system producing disparities in breast cancer mortality in St. Louis. The diagram includes 8 major subsystems, causal links between system factors, and feedback loops, all of which shed light on treatment delays/initiation. Our work suggests that numerous intersecting factors contribute to not seeking treatment, which in turn may contribute to African American and white disparities in mortality.
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