Insurance status among African-American women is strongest predictor for mammography use
Published in Elder Law Weekly, January 11th, 2006
According to Investigators in the United States, "Little is known about the predictors of adherence to mammography guidelines by African-American women. We assessed individual-level and group-level socioeconomic predictors of regular mammography use in a large cohort of African-American women."
L. Rosenberg and colleagues described their study: "We included 14,706 participants in the Black Women's Health Study who were 40 to 69 years of age at baseline in 1995. Data were obtained through mail questionnaires at entry and biennially during three...
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Source: Elder Law Weekly (2006-01-11)
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