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Record W4407824056 · doi:10.1002/9781394191369.part2

The Political Economy of Cancer

2025· other· en· W4407824056 on OpenAlexaff
Beverley M. Essue, Richard Sullivan

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicScience, Research, and Medicine
Canadian institutionsPublic Health OntarioUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsPolitical sciencePolitical economyEconomicsEconomyLaw

Abstract

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The intersections of politics and economics profoundly shape how cancer control is envisioned, prioritised, organised, implemented and experienced in all settings.The political economy of cancer encompasses various elements, such as political decisions, economic systems and societal structures.It interrogates the dynamics that ultimately shape prevalence, prevention, treatment, access and control efforts worldwide, recognising that a broad spectrum of factors -from corporate interests to socioeconomic disparities -can fundamentally shape access to, and use of, prevention and cancer care.Gheorghe provides an overview of how cancer control has been envisioned within the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda.He describes the issues faced by policymakers in addressing the triple challenge of bridging resource gaps, enhancing resource efficiency and targeting resources effectively.He highlights opportunities from leveraging evidence-based plans, pooled procurement and biosimilar utilisation to bridge these gaps.Further, he makes the argument that enhancing cancer control financing will necessitate adherence to UHC financing principles; investment in credible, evidence-informed resource allocation institutions and ongoing political commitment to ensuring equitable access to cancer care.Denburg and Isaranuwatchai explore the global challenge of integrating emerging healthcare innovations, particularly rapid advancements in cancer biotechnologies and new high-cost cancer therapies, into existing health system budgets.The authors highlight the increasing emphasis on value-based care and health technology assessment (HTA) as crucial tools for guiding health system priorities, resource allocations and evidence-based decisions on cancer care funding.They provide an overview of the current landscape of HTA, highlighting its role in supporting value-based cancer care as well as its use and potential for supporting access amid evolving healthcare innovations.Essue, Chukwu and Aggarwal explore access as a critical policy concern for improving cancer outcomes within health systems, particularly in the pursuit of UHC.The authors highlight and critique common approaches used in the literature for measuring access.They then review how determinants of access intersect with equity for cancer populations and discuss opportunities to foster equitable access to essential, high-quality cancer services.Through this review the authors highlight the challenges and opportunities for ensuring fair access to comprehensive cancer care within evolving healthcare contexts.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.255
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.410
Teacher spread0.386 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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