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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Services Research
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Mammography screening is crucial for early breast cancer detection.
  • Significant disparities exist in mammography screening rates between rural and urban populations.
  • Understanding the factors contributing to these disparities is essential for improving cancer screening access.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of healthcare service supply in explaining rural-urban differences in mammography screening.
  • To identify specific factors that mediate the relationship between geographic location and mammography utilization.

Main Methods:

  • Logistic regression models were employed to analyze mammography screening rates.
  • The study assessed the association between the supply of healthcare services and screening behavior.
  • Rural-urban differences were examined in relation to predisposing and enabling factors.

Main Results:

  • Women in sparsely populated rural areas, distant from metropolitan centers, had lower odds of obtaining mammograms (OR = 0.682).
  • This rural-urban disparity in mammography screening was reduced after accounting for predisposing and enabling factors (OR = 0.843).

Conclusions:

  • Contextual-level enabling factors, such as healthcare service availability, play a mediating role in rural-urban differences in mammography screening.
  • These findings highlight the importance of addressing healthcare access barriers to reduce disparities in cancer screening.