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Mass screening in low-income populations: the challenges of securing diagnostic and treatment services in a national cancer screening program

doi: 10.1215/03616878-25-3-451. Mass screening in low-income populations: the challenges of securing diagnostic and treatment services in a national cancer screening program

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¹ University of Michigan, USA.

PMID: 10946385
DOI: 10.1215/03616878-25-3-451

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Mass screening in low-income populations: the challenges of securing diagnostic and treatment services in a national cancer screening program

P M Lantz et al. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2000 Jun.

doi: 10.1215/03616878-25-3-451. Affiliation

¹ University of Michigan, USA.

PMID: 10946385
DOI: 10.1215/03616878-25-3-451

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Abstract

Funding for many mass screening programs for low-income and uninsured populations provides resources for screening tests, yet only rarely does it provide coverage for necessary follow-up diagnostic and treatment services. The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), a federally funded initiative that provides cancer screening to low-income uninsured and underinsured women, covers some diagnostic follow-up tests and no treatment services. We conducted in-depth case studies of seven state programs participating in the NBCCEDP to investigate the strategies and approaches being used to secure diagnostic and treatment services. The results suggest that the program relies on a patchwork of resources--at state and local levels--to provide diagnostic and treatment services. This includes a number of components of local safety nets, all of which are unstable and have uncertain futures. Public health disease-screening initiatives need to reconsider the feasibility of continued reliance on case-by-case appeals to the local safety net for diagnostic follow-up and treatment services.

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