Socio-Territorial Inequities in the French National Breast Cancer Screening Programme-A Cross-Sectional Multilevel Study.

ABSTRACT: France implemented in 2004 the French National Breast Cancer Screening Programme (FNBCSP). Despite national recommendations, this programme coexists with non-negligible opportunistic screening practices. Analyse socio-territorial inequities in the 2013-2014 FNBCSP campaign in a large sample of the eligible population. Analyses were performed using three-level hierarchical generalized linear model. Level one was a 10% random sample of the eligible population in each département (n = 397,598). For each woman, age and travel time to the nearest accredited radiology centre were computed. These observations were nested within 22,250 residential areas called "Îlots Regroupés pour l'Information Statistique" (IRIS), for which the European Deprivation Index (EDI) is defined. IRIS were nested within

SUBMITTER: Rollet Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8430540 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature