AJMC August 26, 2024
Social vulnerability and economic disadvantages exacerbate financial hardship in cancer survivors, according to one study.
Nearly 50% of cancer survivors reported experiencing financial hardship, with younger individuals, those with advanced disease stages, and those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities being most affected, a study finds.1
The cross-sectional study published in JAMA Open Network underscores the critical impact of community-level social determinants of health on financial hardship and calls for targeted interventions to alleviate these economic burdens.
“We hypothesized that adverse community-level social determinants of health may exacerbate financial hardship for socioeconomically disadvantaged populations,” wrote the researchers of the study. “For these reasons, we estimated the prevalence of financial hardship among cancer survivors across cancer types and investigated associations with individual-...
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