Author Description

Being Poor Is A Health Risk (wells Et Al., 2019). When We Wrote Poverty And Place, Cancer Prevention Among Low Income Women Of Color (2019), We Demonstrated The Potent Forces Of Poverty And Place And The Prevalence Of Cancer Among Low-income Women Of Color. That Initial Volume Was The Inspiration For This Volume, Entitled Cancer Navigation: Charting The Pathway Forward For Low Income Women Of Color. In Poverty And Place, We Had Academics And Researchers In Mind. Our Purpose Was To Examine How And Why Racial And Class Disparities Have Become Potent Forces In Health And Longevity Rates In The United States. Conducting Original Research Drawn From North City St. Louis, Missouri And The River City Of East St. Louis, Illinois, We Sought To Understand The Combination Of Factors That Facilitate Or Pose A Barrier To Cancer Treatment And Adherence, For Marginalized Low- Income Women Of Color--