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Socioeconomic Determinants of Participation in Cancer Screening in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study

Low socioeconomic status is associated with late cancer diagnosis and mortality in Argentina. It is important that cancer screening services are accessible to the whole population so that cancer can be detected early. Our aim in this study was to investigate socioeconomic determinants for the dispar...

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Autores principales: Nuche-Berenguer, Bernardo, Sakellariou, Dikaios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34504827
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.699108
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description Low socioeconomic status is associated with late cancer diagnosis and mortality in Argentina. It is important that cancer screening services are accessible to the whole population so that cancer can be detected early. Our aim in this study was to investigate socioeconomic determinants for the disparities in the use of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening services in Argentina, and to measure the country progress in reducing differences in cancer screening participation across socioeconomic levels. We performed a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2018 National Survey of Risk Factors of Argentina. The sample included data from 49,170 households. We also compared the results with data from the 2013 wave of the same survey in order to assess progress on cancer screening participation across income and education categories. Income, education, health insurance, disability, and marital status were associated with cancer screening underuse in Argentina. Comparison between 2013 and 2018 demonstrated that there has been some progress toward increasing cancer screening uptake, but this increase is not equitably distributed across the population. To further reduce disparities in cancer participation across socioeconomic levels, cancer screening programs in Argentina should reinforce strategies to become more accessible. It is important to proactively reach those populations that are underusers of cancer screening and ensure that barriers that stop people from accessing cancer screening are explored and adequately addressed.
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spelling pubmed-84230852021-09-08 Socioeconomic Determinants of Participation in Cancer Screening in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study Nuche-Berenguer, Bernardo Sakellariou, Dikaios Front Public Health Public Health Low socioeconomic status is associated with late cancer diagnosis and mortality in Argentina. It is important that cancer screening services are accessible to the whole population so that cancer can be detected early. Our aim in this study was to investigate socioeconomic determinants for the disparities in the use of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening services in Argentina, and to measure the country progress in reducing differences in cancer screening participation across socioeconomic levels. We performed a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2018 National Survey of Risk Factors of Argentina. The sample included data from 49,170 households. We also compared the results with data from the 2013 wave of the same survey in order to assess progress on cancer screening participation across income and education categories. Income, education, health insurance, disability, and marital status were associated with cancer screening underuse in Argentina. Comparison between 2013 and 2018 demonstrated that there has been some progress toward increasing cancer screening uptake, but this increase is not equitably distributed across the population. To further reduce disparities in cancer participation across socioeconomic levels, cancer screening programs in Argentina should reinforce strategies to become more accessible. It is important to proactively reach those populations that are underusers of cancer screening and ensure that barriers that stop people from accessing cancer screening are explored and adequately addressed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8423085/ /pubmed/34504827 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.699108 Text en Copyright © 2021 Nuche-Berenguer and Sakellariou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full Socioeconomic Determinants of Participation in Cancer Screening in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Socioeconomic Determinants of Participation in Cancer Screening in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study
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title_short Socioeconomic Determinants of Participation in Cancer Screening in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort socioeconomic determinants of participation in cancer screening in argentina: a cross-sectional study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34504827
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.699108
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