Why We Need to Talk About Violence Against Women When We Talk About Cervical Cancer Prevention
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2017
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One in four women experiences intimate partner violence during her lifetime. These experiences affect the range of women’s sexual and reproductive health-care decisions, including decisions about cervical cancer screening. If we care about preventing cervical cancer, we need to look critically at how we provide health care to women who have experienced assault or abuse. We work on The (S)he Project, which is a five-year study looking at improving cervical health literacy among incarcerated women in jails (who typically are incarcerated for under a year), by following a cohort of about 200 women after they received a brief health intervention designed to improve their cervical health knowledge, reduce barriers to screening, and raise self-efficacy concerning navigating health-care providers and health systems. Through this study we’ve been looking in depth at the factors that affect incarcerated women’s access to knowledge of and opportunities for prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer. (Author Text)
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Longitudinal Study, Female, Disparities, Incarcerated, Health Professional, Medical Consequences, Prison, Healthcare, Health Promotion, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Self-help Materials, Screening, Prevention, Risk Factors, Predictive Factors, Barriers to Service, Underserved Populations, Victim-Offender Overlap, Intersectional
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Gwynn, Katherine; Ramaswamy, Megha. (2017). Why We Need to Talk About Violence Against Women When We Talk About Cervical Cancer Prevention. Rewire.