Access to cancer screening services for women.
A major effort in preventive care for women has emphasized the obtaining of Pap smears and mammograms. This paper uses survey data from one state to examine issues of access to Pap smears and mammograms. Poor women receiving health care through a managed-care Medicaid program received these services at the same rate as women with other types of health insurance, while the uninsured were less likely to have had either type of service.
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School of Health Administration and Policy, College of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-4506.
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D000328:Adult; D001130:Arizona; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services; D016015:Logistic Models; D008327:Mammography / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008484:Medicaid; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D065006:Papanicolaou Test; D011897:Random Allocation; D014481:United States; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*