Lung Cancer Among African Americans in

South Carolina

Mairead Miklos, Alyssa Plaut, Kali Gibbons, Katherine Cary

Executive Summary
Defining the Health Problem

● Health Issue: Mortality rates due to lung cancer

● Who?
○ African American adults
● Where?
○ South Carolina
Executive Summary
● The rates of mortality for this population are higher in SC compared to the
national rates
● Higher risk for African Americans
● Lung Cancer Patients:

18% Survival Rate

VS. 56% Survival Rate

(CDC, 2014c).
Needs Assessment
Addressing risk factors

● Reduce secondhand smoke exposure (SHSE)

○ Individual, Environmental
More Important Less Important
More Changeable ● Secondhand smoke ● Daily activity patterns
exposure ● Poverty-linked
disparities
● Feelings towards
smoking
● Tobacco marketing
towards African
Americans

Less Changeable ● Family history ● Socio-economic status

● Genetics ● Race
Needs Assessment

● Start with local intervention

● Proposal
○ An intervention focused towards educating and
mobilizing non-smokers to take action in predominantly
African American communities against SHSE
Program Goals

● Education

● Empower participants to mobilize their communities

● Eliminate the health disparities

Program Objectives

● Process Objectives
○ By December 2023:

■ 114 Information sessions will be held

■ Info sessions will be held in three different places

Program Objectives

● Impact
○ Participants will be able to:

■ Identify three negative effects of smoking

■ Report having a better understanding of secondhand smoke

Program Objectives
● Outcome
○ Rate of death due to lung cancer will decrease by 5%
Theoretical Foundation

● Theory of Planned Behavior

○ focus on perceived behavioral control

○ enhances its ability to be successful for our aimed intent

Intervention Overview

● Information Sessions
○ Guest Speakers

○ Program Planners = instructors

Program Marketing

● Flyers

● Social media

● Email

● Local medical facilities

● Information booths on university campuses