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Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey

BACKGROUND: Social and economic conditions that affect one’s ability to satisfy life’s most basic needs such as lack of affordable housing, restricted access to education and employment, or inadequate income are increasingly well-documented barriers to optimal health. The burden of these challenges...

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Autores principales: Ko, Naomi Yu, Battaglia, Tracy A., Gupta-Lawrence, Rebecca, Schiller, Jessica, Gunn, Christine, Festa, Kate, Nelson, Kerrie, Flacks, JoHanna, Morton, Samantha J., Rosen, Jennifer E.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27296566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1443-1
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author Ko, Naomi Yu
Battaglia, Tracy A.
Gupta-Lawrence, Rebecca
Schiller, Jessica
Gunn, Christine
Festa, Kate
Nelson, Kerrie
Flacks, JoHanna
Morton, Samantha J.
Rosen, Jennifer E.
author_facet Ko, Naomi Yu
Battaglia, Tracy A.
Gupta-Lawrence, Rebecca
Schiller, Jessica
Gunn, Christine
Festa, Kate
Nelson, Kerrie
Flacks, JoHanna
Morton, Samantha J.
Rosen, Jennifer E.
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description BACKGROUND: Social and economic conditions that affect one’s ability to satisfy life’s most basic needs such as lack of affordable housing, restricted access to education and employment, or inadequate income are increasingly well-documented barriers to optimal health. The burden of these challenges among vulnerable patients accessing cancer care services is unknown. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of patients presenting for ambulatory cancer care services (screening and treatment) at an urban safety-net hospital to assess socio-legal concerns (social problems related to meeting life’s basic needs supported by public policy or programming and potentially remedied through legal advocacy/action). RESULTS: Among 104 respondents, 80 (77 %) reported concerns with one or more socio-legal needs in the past month, with a mean of 5.75 concerns per participant. The most common socio-legal concerns related to income supports, housing, and employment/education. CONCLUSION: Our findings support the need for innovations in cancer care delivery to address socio-legal concerns of a vulnerable patient population. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1443-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49065812016-06-15 Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey Ko, Naomi Yu Battaglia, Tracy A. Gupta-Lawrence, Rebecca Schiller, Jessica Gunn, Christine Festa, Kate Nelson, Kerrie Flacks, JoHanna Morton, Samantha J. Rosen, Jennifer E. BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Social and economic conditions that affect one’s ability to satisfy life’s most basic needs such as lack of affordable housing, restricted access to education and employment, or inadequate income are increasingly well-documented barriers to optimal health. The burden of these challenges among vulnerable patients accessing cancer care services is unknown. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of patients presenting for ambulatory cancer care services (screening and treatment) at an urban safety-net hospital to assess socio-legal concerns (social problems related to meeting life’s basic needs supported by public policy or programming and potentially remedied through legal advocacy/action). RESULTS: Among 104 respondents, 80 (77 %) reported concerns with one or more socio-legal needs in the past month, with a mean of 5.75 concerns per participant. The most common socio-legal concerns related to income supports, housing, and employment/education. CONCLUSION: Our findings support the need for innovations in cancer care delivery to address socio-legal concerns of a vulnerable patient population. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1443-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4906581/ /pubmed/27296566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1443-1 Text en © Ko et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ko, Naomi Yu
Battaglia, Tracy A.
Gupta-Lawrence, Rebecca
Schiller, Jessica
Gunn, Christine
Festa, Kate
Nelson, Kerrie
Flacks, JoHanna
Morton, Samantha J.
Rosen, Jennifer E.
Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title_full Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title_fullStr Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title_full_unstemmed Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title_short Burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
title_sort burden of socio-legal concerns among vulnerable patients seeking cancer care services at an urban safety-net hospital: a cross-sectional survey
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27296566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1443-1
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