The Role of Education in the Uptake of Preventative Health Care : The case of Cervical Screening in Britain  

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Sabates, Ricardo ; Feinstein, Leon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 12 (Jun. 2006), page 2998-3010.
Topik: Britain; britain; education; screening; cancer

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper reports findings on the relationship between education and the take up of screening for cervical cancer, as an example of preventative health care activity. Theoretically, education can enhance the demand for preventative health services by raising awareness of the improtance of undertaking regular health chech ups and may also improve the ways in which individuals understand information regarding periodical test, communicate with the health practitioner and interpret results. Furthermore, educaiton ehnaces the inclusion of individuals in society, improving self efficacy and confidence. All these factors may increase service uptake. The empirical analysis uses data from the british household panel survey (BHPS) and applies techniques for disrete panel data to estimate the parameters of the model. Results show that adult learning leading to qualifiactions is statistically associated with an increase in the uptake of screening. The marginal effect indicates that participation in courses leading to qualifications increases the probability of having a smear test between 4.3 and 4.4 percentage points. This estimate is strongly robust to time invariant selectivity bias in education and the inclusion of income, class, occupation and parental socio economic status. These findings enrich existing evidence on the socio economic determinants of screening for cervical cancer and enable policy makers to better understand barriers to service uptake.

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