TY - BOOK ID - 138830771 TI - Societal Impact of Research Funding for Women's Health in Lung Cancer AU - Baird, Matthew D. AU - Al-Ibrahim, Hamad AU - Bird, Chloe E. AU - Chen, Annie AU - Dick, Andrew W. AU - Frank, Lori AU - Gahlon, Grace AU - Quigley, Denise D. AU - Waymouth, Molly AU - Zaber, Melanie A. PY - 2022 PB - RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138830771 AB - Women's health has suffered from insufficient research addressing women. The research community has not widely embraced the value of this research, and the impact of limited knowledge about women's health relative to men's is far-reaching. Without information on the potential return on investment for women's health research, research funders, policymakers, and business leaders lack a basis for altering research investments to improve knowledge of women's health. As part of an initiative of the Women's Health Access Matters (WHAM) nonprofit foundation, RAND Corporation researchers examined the impact of increasing funding for women's health research on lung cancer. Women are disproportionately represented among nonsmokers with lung cancer. Nonsmoking men represent just 2 percent to 6 percent of total lung cancer cases among men, but nonsmoking women represent approximately 20 percent of cases among women. In this report, the authors present the results of microsimulation models used to explore the potential for enhanced investment in women's health research, in terms of the economic well-being of women and for the U.S. population. ER -