Individual well-being and national determinants of screening mammography among women over fifty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide, causing over 400,000 cases of premature death annually. Timely screening mammography (SM) could have prevented most death. Although SM utilization varies across countries, few studies have examined country-level factors, and fewer explored their interaction with individual-level factors. The study aims to analyze individual and country-level variables and their interaction that determines SM utilization and variation between countries.

Methods

Individual, country, and cross-level models are used to analyze the cross-sectional data from the SHARE database for 26,672 women aged 50 or over, from 27 countries. Key individual variables investigated include quality-of-life (QOL), psychological, and subjec

SUBMITTER: Hovav B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11761720 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature