Socioeconomic determinants of cervical cancer screening in Latin America Determinantes socioeconómicos de las pruebas de detección sistemática del cáncer cervicouterino en América Latina

• Main Authors: Samir Soneji, Natsu Fukui
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2013
• Subjects: Neoplasias del cuello uterino; frotis vaginal; tamizaje masivo; Bolivia; Brasil; República Dominicana; Ecuador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Perú; Trinidad y Tobago; América Latina; Uterine cervical neoplasms; vaginal smears; mass screening; Brazil; Dominican Republic; Peru; Trinidad and Tobago; Latin America; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b21b0595e7f343a697da264df118a66c

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of health care access and socioeconomic determinants on Pap smear screening in Latin America. METHODS: Individual-level data was collected from the Demographic and Health Surveys in Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad...