An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Improving Cancer Care in the State of Mississippi as an Example of Cancer Care Improvements in the Global South.

IF 1 Q3 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Cureus Pub Date : 2025-01-03 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.7759/cureus.76865
Madison L Jones, Srinivasan Vijayakumar, Mary R Nittala, Claude D Brunson
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Cancer disparities, a critical public health issue, particularly in states such as Mississippi, where socioeconomic factors significantly influence health outcomes, require our collective attention. This paper delves into the multifaceted nature of cancer disparities through a macro-level analysis of cancer data, specifically focusing on Mississippi as a microcosm of broader national and global trends. Two key indices, the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI) and the Social Deprivation Index (SDeI), provide valuable insights. The former offers a macro-level understanding of the socioeconomic factors that shape health and cancer outcomes. The latter quantifies disadvantages in small areas, identifying regions that need scientific, policy, and administrative support. The poor health care and cancer care (CC) outcomes in Mississippi are well documented and detailed here. However, SDI and SDeI data are not yet available in Mississippi. With biological, technological, and clinical research design advancements and other new innovative strategies emerging in the past decade in CC, a 'leapfrogging' of CC outcomes in Mississippi is within our reach. To achieve this goal, an interdisciplinary approach (IDA) addressing and solving the challenges faced in Mississippi is required. The IDA team must include disciplines that can determine SDI and SDeI for Mississippi and tie those findings to successfully apply new technological advances and innovations efficiently and cost-effectively by building infrastructure and developing implementation strategies. This can serve as a pilot demonstration project that will also help other similar regions within the United States, as well as the Global South.

从跨学科的角度来改善密西西比州的癌症护理,作为全球南方国家癌症护理改善的一个例子。
癌症差异是一个重要的公共卫生问题,特别是在社会经济因素显著影响健康结果的密西西比州等州,需要我们共同关注。本文通过对癌症数据的宏观分析,深入探讨了癌症差异的多面性,特别关注密西西比州作为更广泛的国家和全球趋势的一个缩影。社会人口指数(SDI)和社会剥夺指数(SDeI)这两个关键指数提供了有价值的见解。前者提供了对影响健康和癌症结果的社会经济因素的宏观理解。后者量化了小地区的劣势,确定了需要科学、政策和行政支持的地区。在密西西比,糟糕的医疗保健和癌症护理(CC)结果有很好的记录和详细说明。然而,密西西比州的SDI和SDeI数据尚未可用。在过去的十年中,随着生物、技术和临床研究设计的进步以及其他新的创新策略的出现,密西西比州的CC成果的“跨越式”已经触手可及。为了实现这一目标,需要采用跨学科方法(IDA)来处理和解决密西西比州面临的挑战。IDA团队必须包括能够确定密西西比州SDI和SDeI的学科,并通过建设基础设施和制定实施战略,将这些发现与成功应用新技术进步和创新的效率和成本效益联系起来。这可以作为一个试点示范项目,也将帮助美国其他类似地区,以及全球南方。
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