The Association of English Functional Health Literacy and the Receipt of Mammography among Hispanic Women Compared to Non-Hispanic U.S.-Born White Women
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Kadivar, Hajar
- Other Affiliation: Department of Community Health and Family Medicine; University of Florida
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Kenzik, Kelly M
- Other Affiliation: Division of Preventive Medicine; School of Medicine; University of Alabama-Birmingham
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Dewalt, Darren A
- Affiliation: School of Medicine
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Huang, I-Chan
- Other Affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Abstract
- Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic women in the U.S., and mammography is the recommended screening for early diagnosing and preventing breast cancer. Several barriers exist to influence mammography utilization including poor health literacy. However, it is unclear whether the effect of health literacy on mammography utilization is consistent between Hispanic women and non-Hispanic White women. The main objective of this study was to examine association between functional health literacy and the receipt of mammography among Hispanic women compared to non-Hispanic White women in the U.S.
- Date of publication
- 2016
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- PMCID: PMC5061417
- Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164307
- Onescience id: 5c83849878859be8570db8e69783b3f76a9605cc
- PMID: 27732660
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- Article
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- In Copyright
- Journal title
- PloS One
- Journal volume
- 11
- Journal issue
- 10
- Page start
- e0164307
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
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