Is not clear what is causing these disparities and we were not able to assess those aspects in this particular study. We can only speculate that it might be due to a lack of resources such as transportation, daycare or health centers in deprived areas. |
One of the US's Healthy People 2010 goal is to decrease the proportion of black women who are not up-to-date on their screening from 17 percent to 10 percent. |
This suggests that in addition to individual-level intervention to increase cervical cancer screening, there might be some benefit in neighborhood-level interventions focusing on high-poverty areas. |