Area-level Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Use of Mammography Screening: A Multilevel Analysis of the Health of Houston Survey

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 201-207

  Calo, William A ^a,b   Vernon, Sally W ^a   Lairson, David R ^a   Linder, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING (AREA); EDUCATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENTAL CAPACITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; SCREENING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH DISPARITY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEXAS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84997555425     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.11.002     Document Type: Article

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