Open AccessDelivering Equitable Care: Comparing Preventive Services in Manitoba
Author(s) -
Sumit Gupta,
Leslíe L. Roos,
Randy Walld,
Dawn Traverse,
Matthew Dahl
Publication year - 2003
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.93.12.2086
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , mammography , government (linguistics) , census , public health , cancer screening , population , family medicine , health care , environmental health , breast cancer , cancer , nursing , political science , linguistics , philosophy , law
This study examined preventive care delivered in Manitoba during the 1990s by 3 different methods -childhood immunizations (by physicians and public health nurses under a government program), screening mammography (through a government program introduced in 1995), and cervical cancer screening (no program).