The impact of a national program to provide free mammograms to low-income, uninsured women on breast cancer mortality rates

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4456-4462

  Howard, David H ^a   Ekwueme, Donatus U ^b   Gardner, James G ^b   Tangka, Florence K ^b   Li, Chunyu ^b   Miller, Jacqueline W ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Health services accessibility; Insurance coverage; Mammography; Mass screening; Medically uninsured; State health plans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CAUSE OF DEATH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957581424     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25208     Document Type: Article

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