Changes in the magnitude of social inequality in the uptake of cervical cancer screening in Taiwan, a country implementing a population-based organized screening program

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chiou, Shu Ti ^a,b   Wu, Chien Yuan ^a   Hurng, Baai Shyun ^a   Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^c  

^a Ministry of Health   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mass screening; National Health Interview Survey; Socio economic factors; Uterine cervical neoplasm

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL INEQUALITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TAIWAN; URBANIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84892154409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-13-4     Document Type: Article

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