Article: RESEARCHER FINDS ACCESS TO CARE, RACE, FATALISM INFLUENCE WHETHER WOMEN RECEIVE MAMMOGRAMS

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Nov. 5 -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news release:

A new study by an East Tennessee State University professor reveals that access to health care is the primary factor that influences whether women receive regular mammograms.

Dr. Amal Khoury, interim chair of the Department of Health Services Administration in ETSU's College of Public Health, co-authored the study, which is published in the latest edition of Women's Health Issues, the leading academic journal for women's studies.

While access to health care is the overriding factor for women to keep to a mammogram schedule, Khoury said it is hardly the only one. Race, especially where African ...

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