[ANSWER]Assessment 1- Rural Communities and Vulnerability to Cancer: Implications for Care Delivery

[ANSWER PREVIEW]Even in developed countries such as Australia, geography is one of the factors which contribute to disparities Implications for Care Delivery.

For more than five decades, rural-urban inequalities in access to healthcare services and health have been a concern for policymakers and practitioners. It is conventional wisdom that as a result of the distance between rural residents and healthcare services, people living in rural areas are less likely to receive early diagnosis and thus start receiving effective treatments for such illnesses as cancer as compared to their urban counterparts (Ellis, Coleman & Rachet, 2012) Implications for Care Delivery.

Even in developed countries such as Australia, geography is one of the factors which contribute to disparities Implications for Care Delivery. Specifically, mortality rates for some types of cancers increase with remoteness. In several studies such as by Fox & Boyce (2014), cancer risk, as well as poorer survival for individuals living with cancer in rural and remote areas has been well documented. In this case, patients in remote areas are likely to die within five years after being diagnosed with cancer as compared to their urban counterparts who die after five years (Rachakonda et al., 2015). Even though the overall survival rate for many common cancers has been improving in Australia, the rural-urban differential has continued to rise.

Accordingly, deaths as a result of colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers in rural and remote regions have been on an upward trend. Between 2000 and 2010, the number of deaths in remote and rural areas was more than eight thousand of the number reported in metropolitan areas in the country indicating a wide disparity (Fox & Boyce, 2014) Implications for Care Delivery. Despite the fact that the incidence of cancer is higher in major cities but lower in remote areas, the incidence of preventable cancers including head, ling, and melanoma are higher in rural…[Buy Full Answer for Just USD 9: 2788 WORDS]

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