Open AccessImpact of per capita income on the effectiveness of school-based health education programs to promote cervical cancer screening uptake in southern Mozambique
Author(s) -
Floriano Amimo,
Troy D. Moon,
Anthony Magit,
Jahit Sacarlal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/jgid.jgid_165_17
Subject(s) - gross national income , medicine , demography , per capita , per capita income , educational attainment , cancer screening , purchasing power parity , logistic regression , environmental health , socioeconomics , developing country , business , population , economics , economic growth , cancer , finance , sociology , exchange rate , pathology
In the face of rising mortality rates from cervical cancer (CC) among women of reproductive age, a nationwide screening program based on visual inspection with acetic acid was introduced in Mozambique in 2009.