Managed Healthcare Executive April 29, 2024
Lack of health insurance and not having a healthcare provider are two of the biggest factors that contribute to skipping a mammogram.
Nearly 40,000 women in the United States die from breast cancer every year. Mammography has decreased breast cancer rates significantly. Even so, some women don’t get regular mammograms.
To determine which factors are the biggest barriers to mammogram access, a research team led by Jacqueline Miller, M.D., a board-certified general surgeon and captain with the U.S. Public Health Service, combed through data from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. They focused on mammography prevalence in women ages 40-74 and categorized them by jurisdiction, age and sociodemographic factors. The results were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality...
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