BACKGROUND Women not offered screening mammography reported higher levels of negative psychosocial aspects than women offered screening. This was demonstrated in a questionnaire survey where 1000 women were included: 500 women living in areas where the public authorities had never offered screening mammography and 500 women living in areas where women had been invited to screening mammography f...

Abstract: The literature assessing the efficacy of the food stamp program has long puzzled over the negative correlation between food stamp receipt and various health related outcomes such as food security. We examine the impact of food stamps on food insecurity and health in households with children, formally accounting for identification problems arising from the endogenous selection and misc...

We report the discovery of five broad-absorption-line (BAL) QSOs in a complete sample of 111 ultraviolet excess (UVX) QSO candidates also detected in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. All five BAL QSOs, which include two high-ionization BAL QSOs and three low-ionization BAL QSOs, are formally radio-loud. Of QSOs with z > 0.4, 3±2% show low-ionization BALs, and of QSOs with z > 1.5, all radio-loud, 9±5% ...

OBJECTIVES Proven screening technologies exist for both breast and cervical cancer, but they are underused by many women. We sought to evaluate the effect of demographic characteristics on the underuse of mammography and Pap smear screening. METHODS We analyzed responses from 12,252 women who participated in the 1987 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement. Demographic prof...