Does the Neighborhood Area of Residence Influence Non-Attendance in an Urban Mammography Screening Program? A Multilevel Study in a Swedish City.

Summary, in English

The public health impact of population-based mammography screening programs depends on high participation rates. Thus, monitoring participation rates, as well as understanding and considering the factors influencing attendance, is important. With the goal to acquire information on the appropriate level of intervention for increasing screening participation our study aimed to (1) examine whether, over and above individual factors, the neighborhood of residence influences a woman's mammography non-attendance, and (2) evaluate, whether knowing a woman's neighborhood of residence would be sufficient to predict non-attendance.

• Author: Magdalena Lagerlund; Juan Merlo; Raquel Perez Vicente; Sophia Zackrisson
• Department/s: Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö; Social Epidemiology; BioCARE: Biomarkers in Cancer Medicine improving Health Care, Education and Innovation; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: PLoS ONE
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 10
• Full text: - 1 MB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26460609?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140244
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Topic: Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Project: Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity
• Research group: Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö; Social Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1932-6203