Self-Reported Cancer Screening Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: A Rural-Urban Comparison

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 312-319

  Fan, Lin ^a   Mohile, Supriya ^b   Zhang, Ning ^a   Fiscella, Kevin ^b   Noyes, Katia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Health disparities; Medicare; Rural living; Utilization of health services

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84863576005     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2012.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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