TY - JOUR
T1 - Community Breast Health Education for Immigrants and Refugees
T2 - Lessons Learned in Outreach Efforts to Reduce Cancer Disparities
AU - Kamaraju, Sailaja
AU - Olson, Jessica
AU - DeNomie, Melissa
AU - Visotcky, Alexis
AU - Banerjee, Anjishnu
AU - Asan, Onur
AU - Tavares, Emmanuel
AU - Rao, Amrita
AU - LaCroix, Megan
AU - Krause, Kate
AU - Neuner, Joan
AU - Stolley, Melinda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, American Association for Cancer Education.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Cancer disparities
KW - Community education
KW - Community-academic partnership
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U2 - 10.1007/s13187-018-1412-y
DO - 10.1007/s13187-018-1412-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 30091014
AN - SCOPUS:85051532560
SN - 0885-8195
VL - 34
SP - 1092
EP - 1096
JO - Journal of Cancer Education
JF - Journal of Cancer Education
IS - 6
ER -