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Behaviour Related to Cervical Cancer Risks

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Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America

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Cervical cancer (CC) is a serious public health problem for women in developing countries due principally to a lack of preventive behaviours. CC has a slow evolution that needs years to develop, which allows early detection of abnormal cells that can be treated to prevent CC but otherwise can become cancer cells. This early detection can be accomplished via the Papanicolaou test. In Mexico , we have found that between 20 and 30% of women with primary or middle school education had never undergone a Papanicolaou, and, among those who had done so, only about the half had undergone the test prior to reaching 30 years of age. In addition to low schooling, other variables that we have found to be associated with failure to undergo the test are lack of knowledge about CC and the usefulness of Papanicolaou, as well as the fact of thinking that health depends on luck, destiny or random chance.

Dr. Yamilet Ehrenzweig, Researcher, Institute of Psychological Research, Universidad Veracruzana. Email: yamiletehrenzweig@hotmail.com.

Dr. Ma. Luisa Marván, Researcher, Institute of Psychological Research, Universidad Veracruzana. Email: mlmarvan@gmail.com.

The authors are grareful to Ma. Fernanda Marván Ramírez who assisted us in collecting information.

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    Morbidity refers to the number of people suffering from the disease in a given place and time, whereas mortality is the number of people who die from the disease in a given place and time.

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    Aetiology refers to the origin or causes of a disease.

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Ehrenzweig, Y., Marván, M.L. (2018). Behaviour Related to Cervical Cancer Risks. In: Marván, M., López-Vázquez, E. (eds) Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73799-7_4

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