Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latinas and Non-Latina Whites

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ID11034243
AutoresAna F Abraído-Lanza (0000-0002-0885-8613, Ana F. Abraído-Lanza and Maria T. Chao are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Marilie Gammon is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.), Maria T Chao (0000-0001-9846-7044, Ana F. Abraído-Lanza and Maria T. Chao are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Marilie Gammon is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.), Marilie D Gammon (0000-0002-1004-3106, Ana F. Abraído-Lanza and Maria T. Chao are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Marilie Gammon is with the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.)
Año2004
Volumen94
Número8
Páginas1393-1398
Fecha de publicación2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.94.8.1393
PMID15284049
OpenAlexW2039450889
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas22

Objectives. We examined whether Latinas differ from non-Latinas in having undergone recent mammography, clinical breast examination, or Papanicolaou testing, as well as the contribution of sociodemographic and health care variables to screening. Methods. We used data from the 1991 National Health Interview Survey Health Promotion and Disease Prevention supplement. Results. Latinas were less likely than non-Latina Whites to have undergone mammography (odds ratio [OR] = 0.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.57, 0.88), but this difference was attenuated when we controlled for socioeconomic factors (OR = 0.90; 95% CI = 0.70, 1.15). Latinas did not differ from Whites on Papanicolaou tests or clinical breast examinations. Quality of and access to health care predicted screening. Conclusions. Latina ethnicity does not predict breast and cervical cancer screening behavior independent of sociodemographic and structural factors

Breast cancer · Breast cancer screening · Cancer · Cancer screening · Cervical cancer · Confidence interval · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Family medicine · Gynecology · Mammography · National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey · National Health Interview Survey · Odds ratio · Papanicolaou stain · Population · Socioeconomic status · Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection · Demography · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Gerontology