Race and ethnic disparities in cervical cancer screening in a safety-net system

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 285-295

  Owusu, Gertrude A ^a   Eve, Susan Brown ^a   Cready, Cynthia M ^a   Koelln, Kenneth ^a   Trevino, Fernando ^b   Urrutia Rojas, Ximena ^b   Baumer, Joanne ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHN PETER SMITH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Access, and evaluation; Health services research; Healthcare quality; Healthcare surveys; Utilization of cervical cancer screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MINORITY GROUP; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; TEXAS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33644787834     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-005-0004-8     Document Type: Article

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