Using mammograms to predict preventive health services behavior and mortality in women

This study examined whether mammography receipt was associated with mortality due to causes other than breast cancer, hypothesizing that mammography screening was a proxy for the predisposition to seek preventive health behaviors. Using data on 89,574 women from the 2000 National Health Interview Su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bilikisu Elewonibi, Patricia Y. Miranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Preventive Medicine Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335516301279