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OCCASIONAL REVIEW: Education and Hysterectomy
Author(s) -
Santow Gigi
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1995.tb01833.x
Subject(s) - hysterectomy , medicine , population , family medicine , demography , general surgery , gynecology , psychology , surgery , sociology , environmental health
Summary: A small Canberra survey provided the opportunity to investigate the observation that tertiary education is associated with lower hysterectomy rates. Despite the sample's being small and unrepresentative of either the Australian or even the Canberra population, it was possible to replicate a simple version of a national model of hysterectomy. Tertiary education remained strongly predictive of a low rate of hysterectomy. Additionally, the study showed, first, that tertiary‐educated women were less likely than others to be told that they needed a hysterectomy in the first place. Secondly, they were less likely to accept such advice: hysterectomy was undergone by only 1 of 5 of the better educated women to whom it had been suggested, but by 4 of 5 of the less educated.