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Rural‐Urban Disparities in Access to Breast Cancer Screening: A Spatial Clustering Analysis

Aastha Chandak, Preethy Nayar, Ge Lin

The Journal of Rural Health · 2018 · 103 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

The evidence from this study points to geographic disparities in access to screening for breast cancer. Mitigating the access issues that rural women face would require interventions specifically targeted to rural populations.

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