Increasing utilization of a rural cervical cancer detection program. | Zendy

Richard A. Windsor | Zendy; Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld | Zendy; Melanie Cain | Zendy; Gary Cutter | Zendy; Lydia Goodson | Zendy; Ethel Edwards | Zendy

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Increasing utilization of a rural cervical cancer detection program.

Author(s) -

Richard A. Windsor,

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld,

Melanie Cain,

Gary Cutter,

Lydia Goodson,

Ethel Edwards

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.6.641

Subject(s) - medicine , public health , cervical cancer , environmental health , cancer screening , rural community , rural health , program evaluation , intervention (counseling) , rural area , family medicine , gerontology , community health , cancer , demography , nursing , political science , pathology , public administration , sociology

The Alabama Department of Public Health established, in 1973, a Cancer Screening Program (CSP). Although 66,000 women have been screened, many rural females had never used the program. After a community health organization education effort was introduced into a target rural county, an examination of CSP new user data for two intervention quarters revealed 345 and 150 per cent increases, respectively, in the pattern of use.

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