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Clinical Imaging of Microwave Mammography
Published on: November 14, 2025
Does supply influence mammography screening?
Nasreen Khan1, Robert Kaestner, J Warren Salmon
1College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. nkhan@salud.unm.edu
Objective:
To explain rural-urban differences in mammography screening by supply of health care services.
Methods:
Logistic regression models were used to assess whether variation in the supply of health care services related to mammography screening explained rural-urban differences in mammography screening rates.
Results:
Women living in small (thinly populated) rural areas not adjacent to a metro area were less likely to obtain a mammogram (OR = 0.682, CI: 0.62-0.75) compared to women in large metro counties. This difference was reduced after adjusting for predisposing and enabling factors (OR = 0.843, CI: 0.76-0.93).
Conclusions:
Contextual-level enabling factors mediated the rural-urban difference in mammography screening.
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