Reconsidering inequalities in preventive health care: An application of cultural health capital theory and the life-course perspective to the take-up of mammography screening

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1259-1275

  Missinne, Sarah ^a,c   Neels, Karel ^b   Bracke, Piet ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cultural health capital; Inequalities; Life course; Mammography screening; Preventive health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BELGIUM; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DENTAL PROCEDURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BELGIUM; CHILD; CULTURE; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84913610485     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12169     Document Type: Article

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