OBJECTIVE Postnatal visits at community-based midwife obstetric units (MOUs) have been proposed as an alternative primary healthcare screening platform in South Africa. This study evaluated the outcomes of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) screening conducted by a dedicated non-professional screener at a community-based MOU in the...

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of three breast cancer screening methods using weighted estimation, non-weighted estimation and the exact binomial method. Northeastern women aged 20 to 64 (n = 1,081) were randomly selected with multi-stage sampling. The results indicated that the prevalence of women who had performed Breast Self-Examination (BSE) and women who had regularly...

BACKGROUND Since 1998, Italian law requires serological screening for toxoplasmosis by the thirteenth week of pregnancy, and seronegative women should undergo further checks every 30 - 40 days until delivery (a total of 5 - 7 screenings). This is an improvement of the previous law which foresaw three free tests (one by the end of the third month, one in the fifth, and one in the ninth month of ...

TYPE: Late Breaking Abstract TOPIC: Lung Cancer PURPOSE: cancer is the second most diagnosed and leading cause of cancer-related deaths in United States. While early detection has a direct impact on survival outcomes, sadly 47% lung late stage (Stage III or IV)1. Reference: 1. https://www.lung.org/getmedia/381ca407-a4e9-4069-b24b-195811f29a00/solc-2020-report-final.pdf., American Association St...

Purpose: Transgender people face barriers to accessing healthcare, resulting in population-level disparities in health outcomes. Little research is available to better understand the receipt of primary healthcare among transgender patients or how the rate of receipt of preventive care may differ among transgender populations. Methods: The medical literature regarding U.S. adult transgender prim...

Background/Aims: This study aimed to determine the effect of health literacy level on early diagnosis Aim: behaviors breast and cervical cancer in women between ages 18 65.
 Material Method: The descriptive cross-sectional was conducted with female patients who admitted Obstetrics Gynecology Outpatient Clinics a Training Research Hospital Central Black Sea region. Data were collected using...

BACKGROUND In France, equality in access to screening has been one of the main thrusts of public policies implemented between 2009 and 2013 (the national cancer plan). Our aim in this study was to analyse the obstacles to and levers for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening uptake and their trends over time. METHODS Based on representative data from the French Health Care and Heal...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to determine whether a combination of automatically administered pure-tone audiometry and a tone-in-noise detection task, both delivered via an air conduction (AC) pathway, could reliably and validly predict the presence of a conductive component to the hearing loss. The authors hypothesized that performance on the battery of tests would vary a...

More than 80% of African Americans in Oregon reside in the Portland metropolitan area; African Americans comprise 1.7% of the state's population. Although relatively small, the African American population in the state experiences substantial health disparities. The African American Health Coalition, Inc was developed to implement initiatives that would reduce these disparities and to promote in...

INTRODUCTION Cancer screening rates among Latinas are suboptimal. The objective of this study was to explore how Latinas perceive cancer screening and the use and design of interactive voice response (IVR) messages to prompt scheduling of 1 or more needed screenings. METHODS Seven focus groups were conducted with Latina community health center patients (n = 40) in need of 1 or more cancer scr...