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Cancer Screening: Reducing Structural Barriers for Clients – Breast Cancer

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: March 2010

Workgroups: Cancer Workgroup, Social Determinants of Health Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions that reduce structural barriers to increase screening mammograms for breast cancer. These interventions may help increase access to cancer screening services by: 

  • Reducing the time or distance between the people who need services and the places where services are offered 
  • Making sure people can get services at times that work for them
  • Offering services in non-clinical settings, like mobile mammography vans at worksites or in residential communities
  • Reducing or simplifying administrative procedures
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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of females who get screened for breast cancer — C‑05
Improving

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2010). Cancer Screening: Reducing Structural Barriers for Clients – Breast Cancer. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/cancer-screening-reducing-structural-barriers-clients-breast-cancer