Socioeconomic disparities in the uptake of breast and cervical cancer screening in Italy: A cross sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Damiani, Gianfranco ^a   Federico, Bruno ^b   Basso, Danila ^a   Ronconi, Alessandra ^a   Bianchi, Caterina Bianca Neve Aurora ^a   Anzellotti, Gian Marco ^a   Nasi, Gabriella ^a   Sassi, Franco ^c   Ricciardi, Walter ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856501693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-99     Document Type: Article

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