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Health DisparitiesThe National Cancer Institute has designated reducing health disparities as a special challenge. The Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) health disparities mission is to monitor the differential burden of cancer among Americans and promote and conduct research that identifies and addresses the economic, social, cultural, psychological, behavioral, and biological mechanisms contributing to these disparities across the cancer control continuum and throughout the human lifespan.
From the surveillance perspective, several data and methodologic issues exist. Through program support and collaboration, there has been improvement in the data systems to advance our understanding of health disparities, particularly the complex factors that are associated with or mitigate differences in health status or outcome. Included in this constellation of issues are those related to:
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