Resumen
Black Lives Matter has highlighted the increased social discrepancies that exist not only in the context of social justice but also in public health. Oral cancer screening is not exempt from disparity, with Black Americans less likely to seek screening leading to higher incidence and worse outcomes of oropharyngeal cancers. We investigate interaction analysis and Blinder?Oaxaca decomposition as tools to guide policy to address this disparity. Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2011?2018 we find that being both in poverty and Black results in sub-additive interaction, which is further deconstructed into differences in higher education levels and poverty status.