Community Breast Health Education for Immigrants and Refugees: Lessons Learned in Outreach Efforts to Reduce Cancer Disparities

Sailaja Kamaraju, Jessica Olson, Melissa DeNomie, Alexis Visotcky, Anjishnu Banerjee, Onur Asan, Emmanuel Tavares, Amrita Rao, Megan LaCroix, Kate Krause, Joan Neuner, Melinda Stolley

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Abstract

Community-academic partnerships are vital to address cancer disparities in geographic areas with diverse socioeconomic, language, and cultural barriers. Regarding breast health, immigrant and refugee women are a particularly vulnerable population, with considerably lower mammography rates than most communities, including racial and ethnic minorities. To promote health care equity in this high-risk population, we developed a community-academic partnership (CAP) model to promote breast health education at community faith-based centers in the city of Milwaukee, WI. In this paper, we describe the success of our partnerships, our lessons learned, and future directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1092-1096
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Cancer Education
Volume34
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019

Keywords

  • Breast cancer
  • Cancer disparities
  • Community education
  • Community-academic partnership

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