Increasing utilization of a rural cervical cancer detection program.
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 71 (6) , 641-643
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.71.6.641
Abstract
The Alabama Department of Public Health established, in 1973, a Cancer Screening Program (CSP). Although 66,000 women have been screened, many rural females had never used the program. After a community health organization education effort was introduced into a target rural county, an examination of CSP new user data for two intervention quarters revealed 345 and 150 per cent increases, respectively, in the pattern of use.Keywords
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