Health insurance and cervical cancer screening among older women in Latin American and Caribbean cities
Author(s) -
Carlos Ortíz,
Luís Fernando Vélez,
María E. Camacho,
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher,
Kyriakos S. Markides
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn096
Subject(s) - medicine , cervical cancer , papanicolaou stain , socioeconomic status , public health , odds , odds ratio , demography , latin americans , health care , multivariate analysis , environmental health , logistic regression , cancer , population , nursing , philosophy , sociology , economics , economic growth , linguistics
The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear use for cervical cancer screening and to estimate its association with type of health care insurance.
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