Economic stress among low-income women with cancer

Treatment delays among women with breast cancer in a low socio-economic status region in Brazil

BACKGROUND Considering the inequalities and the areas of low socioeconomic status in Brazil, access to health services is a challenge and the delay between diagnosis and treatment represents an important factor of worse prognosis in patients with breast cancer. Herein, we describe the clinical and epidemiological profiles of women with breast cancer and evaluate their access to health services,...

Examining Relationships among Obesity, Food Insecurity, Stress, and Emotional Eating in Low-Income Women

Concepts of anemia among low income Nicaraguan women.

Anemia is a common health problem among women throughout the world, however, there has been minimal research on women's concepts of anemia. The purpose of this study was to examine concepts of anemia in low income Nicaraguan women. A qualitative design was used. Audio-taped open-ended interviews in Spanish with 14 women were used to obtain data. Tapes were transcribed and content analyzed. The ...

Correlates of cigarette smoking among low-income African American women.

OBJECTIVE This study examines individual and contextual correlates of cigarette smoking in a randomly selected, community-based sample of low-income African American women. DESIGN The study sample was selected by using a two-stage area probability sample design. SETTING Participants were recruited from > 12,000 housing units selected from 39 census tracts in the city of Detroit. PARTICIPA...

Stability of health care coverage among low-income working women.

This article examines health insurance stability patterns and the factors associated with stable coverage in a sample of 453 low-income working women. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), the authors found that only 51 percent of these women had stable coverage during 1995-1997. Logistic regression results indicate that, controlling for other factors, health insuran...