The Prevention Research Center for Rural Health (PRC-RH) is hosting an April session of their Journal Club series. Join in person or via Zoom!

Application of Spatial Methods in Rural Cancer Control Research in the United States

• Date: Friday, April 10.
• Article summary: The 66 million Americans who live in rural areas experience notable cancer disparities. It is imperative to examine the spatial elements of these disparities to know how to best target policies and interventions. Our review summarizes spatial methods in rural cancer control research. Spatial methods relevant for rural cancer control research range from identifying patterns to spatial accessibility to regression approaches. Recent applications have adapted to the new rural health landscape by considering the role of telehealth in spatial accessibility measures and the impact of rural hospital closures in multilevel regression modeling with spatial considerations. Further, research continues to innovate on small area estimation techniques to provide useful risk factor and burden estimates to inform interventions.
• Read the full article
• Discussion led by Whitney Zahnd, assistant professor of health management and policy

Times: 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Central Time

Zoom link: You may join the session here.

In-person attendance: S030 CPHB