Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review

Women’s health behaviour pertaining to cervical cancer screening is a complex inter- and intra-relationship between concerns on health matters and other internal and external influences. Women’s decision to seek preventive health care such as cervical cancer screening is being made complicated by wo...

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Main Author: B., Anisah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Community Health Society Malaysia (CHSM) 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/1/Women%27s%20perspective%20on%20the%20accessibility%20to%20cervical%20cancer%20screening%20a%20review.pdf
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description Women’s health behaviour pertaining to cervical cancer screening is a complex inter- and intra-relationship between concerns on health matters and other internal and external influences. Women’s decision to seek preventive health care such as cervical cancer screening is being made complicated by women’s status in the society. This review looks into women’s perspectives in seven areas of influences namely, knowledge; psychosocial; gender roles and norms; accessibility; beliefs, attitudes and perceptions; health services; and, language and communication. These influences are interlinked with each other and they function simultaneously. This review also showed that knowledge alone is inadequate to enable women to seek cervical cancer screening. Other factors interplay to hinder women from attending screening.
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spelling upm-532562017-09-21T08:06:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/ Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review B., Anisah Women’s health behaviour pertaining to cervical cancer screening is a complex inter- and intra-relationship between concerns on health matters and other internal and external influences. Women’s decision to seek preventive health care such as cervical cancer screening is being made complicated by women’s status in the society. This review looks into women’s perspectives in seven areas of influences namely, knowledge; psychosocial; gender roles and norms; accessibility; beliefs, attitudes and perceptions; health services; and, language and communication. These influences are interlinked with each other and they function simultaneously. This review also showed that knowledge alone is inadequate to enable women to seek cervical cancer screening. Other factors interplay to hinder women from attending screening. Community Health Society Malaysia (CHSM) 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/1/Women%27s%20perspective%20on%20the%20accessibility%20to%20cervical%20cancer%20screening%20a%20review.pdf B., Anisah (2016) Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review. International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences, 3 (3). pp. 1-16. ISSN ESSN: 2289-7577 http://publichealthmy.org/ejournal/ojs2/index.php/ijphcs
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Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title_full Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title_fullStr Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title_full_unstemmed Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title_short Women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
title_sort women's perspective on the accessibility to cervical cancer screening: a review
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53256/1/Women%27s%20perspective%20on%20the%20accessibility%20to%20cervical%20cancer%20screening%20a%20review.pdf