ArticlePreventive medicine reports2015
Screening mammography uptake within Australia and Scotland in rural and urban populations.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Variations in outcomes by residential location for women with breast cancer: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2018Pooled it
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- Insights into the Refusal of Free Screening Mammograms: Exploring Contributing Factors.Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) · 2024Article
- Talking about health: Community ambassadors as a health promotion strategy to increase breast and bowel cancer screening in regional Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2023Article
- Inequality in mammography uptake: results from recruitment phase of first cohort study among Iranian Kurdish population.Global health research and policy · 2022Article
- General practitioners' (GPs) understanding and views on breast density in Australia: a qualitative interview study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Geographical Disparities in Screening and Cancer-Related Health Behaviour.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Mapping Variation in Breast Cancer Screening: Where to Intervene?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Utilisation of mammography by women with mobility impairment in the UK: secondary analysis of cross-sectional data.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Use of Breast Cancer Screening and Its Association with Later Use of Preventive Services among Medicare Beneficiaries.Radiology · 2018Article
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- Patterns, knowledge, and barriers of mammography use among women in Saudi Arabia.Saudi medical journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo test the hypothesis that rural populations had lower uptake of screening mammography than urban populations in the Scottish and Australian setting.
methodScottish data are based upon information from the Scottish Breast Screening Programme Information System describing uptake among women residing within the NHS Highland Health Board area who were invited to attend for screening during the 2008 to 2010 round (N = 27,416). Australian data were drawn from the 2010 survey of the 1946-51 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (N = 9890 women).
resultsContrary to our hypothesis, results indicated that women living in rural areas were not less likely to attend for screening mammography compared to women living in urban areas in both Scotland (OR for rural = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.06-1.29) and Australia (OR for rural = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.01-1.31).
conclusionsThe absence of rural-urban differences in attendance at screening mammography demonstrates that rurality is not necessarily an insurmountable barrier to screening mammography.
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