Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 2 , Pages 85-99 , March 2008

Women’s Compliance with Public Health Guidelines for Mammograms and Pap tests in Canada and the United States: An Analysis of Data from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health

  • Debra L. Blackwell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Debra L. Blackwell, PhD, is a statistician/demographer at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Hyattsville, Maryland. She works extensively on the National Health Interview Survey, particularly on family structure, demographic indicators, and health status and limitations.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Debra Blackwell, NCHS/DHIS, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 2326, Hyattsville, MD, 20782.
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  • Michael E. Martinez, MPH, MHSA

      Affiliations

    • Michael E. Martinez, MPH, MHSA, is an epidemiologist at NCHS. His areas of interest include health insurance coverage status and Latino health issues.
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  • Jane F. Gentleman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Jane F. Gentleman, PhD, has been Director of the NCHS Division of Health Interview Statistics since 1999. Prior to that, she was at Statistics Canada, and before that, she was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her current research interests are in survey methodology and data analysis.

Received 4 May 2007 ,Accepted 23 October 2007.

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 The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

PII: S1049-3867(07)00175-2

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.10.006

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 2 , Pages 85-99 , March 2008

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