Prioritizing Interventions and Research to Address the Cancer Disparities of Arizona’s American Indian Population

Authors

Norman J. Petersen, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Sujata Joshi, Oregon Public Health Division
Tim Flood, Arizona Cancer Registry
Kathryn Coe, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public HealthFollow

Keywords

Cancer — Diagnosis; Cancer – Prevention; Cancer Burden; Cancer Disparities; Indians of North America; Matrix; Southwest; New

Disciplines

Community-Based Research | Inequality and Stratification | Medicine and Health | Oncology | Public Health

Abstract

The aim of the Southwest American Indian Collaborative Network (SAICN) is to reduce cancer disparities by closing the gap between community needs and the promise of cancer prevention and cure through participatory education, training and research programs. In an effort to provide evidence-based recommendations and promote the use of relevant data in tribal communities, the SAICN Data and Evaluation Core developed two comparison matrices that present scientifically sound practices for use by community health decision makers in prioritizing activities likely to reduce the irrespective community’s burden of cancer. In their current configurations, Matrix A considers those cancers for which prevention and early detection interventions exist (cervical, breast, colorectal, tobacco-linked) and Matrix B addresses cancers for which interventions are unknown or not well developed. The matrices were converted into worksheet formats to facilitate their use at the community level. Further, to facilitate the application of this approach in a tribal community setting, guidelines for a five-part implementation plan were developed. In this paper, we describe the matrices and the guidelines and our process for moving forward.

Recommended Citation

Petersen, Norman J.; Joshi, Sujata; Flood, Tim; and Coe, Kathryn (2010) "Prioritizing Interventions and Research to Address the Cancer Disparities of Arizona’s American Indian Population," Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol4/iss1/6