Reaching African-American and Native-American women : Evaluation of local breast cancer screening initiatives

✍ Scribed by Christina E. Stovall; Stephen A. Wright

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 78 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19981015)83:8+<1840::aid-cncr35>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

The Texas Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) provides services to older, low-income women, who are a medically underserved population. However, reaching African-American and Native-American women challenges local health care providers. To address this need specifically, BCCCP funded local breast cancer screening initiatives in 1996 to increase service delivery to these women.

Nine health care providers located in Dallas, Houston, East Texas, Central Texas, and Lubbock participated in this 8-month initiative, which targeted older, low-income women, specifically, African Americans and Native Americans. At their screening visit, women completed a survey regarding utilization of health care services. Providers were surveyed to identify issues affecting outreach to the priority population after the campaign ended.