ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2020
Health information provision, health knowledge and health behaviours: Evidence from breast cancer screening.
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- "Salud Mamaria", an internet-based psychoeducational program during the breast cancer diagnosis process: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- Can social media encourage diabetes self-screenings? A randomized controlled trial with Indonesian Facebook users.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
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- Impact of a Personal Health Record Intervention Upon Surveillance Among Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Feasibility Study.JMIR cancer · 2022Article
- What Drives Elderly People in China Away from COVID-19 Information?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Does retirement affect secondary preventive care use? Evidence from breast cancer screening.Economics and human biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many public health interventions aim to provide individuals with health information on the consequences of behaviours such as smoking, alcohol consumption or preventive care use, with the intention of changing health behaviour through better health knowledge. This paper examines whether the provision of health information in organised breast cancer screening programs affects mammography utilisation via changes in health knowledge. We use unique data on 10,610 European women from the Eurobarometer survey collected in 1997/1998, and we exploit variation in the availability and coverage of organised breast cancer screening programs for causal identification in a difference-in-differences design. We find that health information provision improves health knowledge. Yet, these changes in health knowledge had little to no effects on mammography utilisation in the overall population. Our findings imply that health information provision contributes little to health behaviour change. Although screening programs are effective at increasing preventive care use, their effect can be attributed almost entirely to factors other than health knowledge.
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