Estimating Uninsured and Underinsured Women Eligible for Minnesota's Breast Cancer Screening Program.

ABSTRACT: The mission of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program's (NBCCEDP) mission is to improve access to mammography and other health services for underserved women. Since its inception in 1991, this national program has improved breast cancer screening rates for women who are uninsured and underinsured. However, the literature has shown that NBCCEDP screenings are decreasing, and only reach a portion of eligible women. Reliable estimates at the sub-county level are needed to identify and reach eligible women. Our work builds upon previous estimates by integrating uninsured and insurance status into spatially adaptive filters. We use spatially adaptive filters to create small area estimates of standardized incidence ratios describing the utilization rate of NBCCEDP servic

SUBMITTER: Haynes D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10246289 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature