African American Women and Breast Cancer: Interventions at Multiple Levels

Abstract

In this chapter, after providing an overview of breast cancer among African American women and reviewing existing psychosocial interventions, we will frame African American and white mortality disparities within a larger biopsychosocial context, and then propose a new neighborhood- and community-level intervention for African American women. We will outline our own work with African American women newly diagnosed with breast cancer living on the South Side of Chicago, and present our novel approach to choosing the targets of intervention based on the community-based, multilevel investigations conducted at the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)