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http://dx.doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.5.1857

Impacts of Household Income and Economic Recession on Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening in Korea  

Myong, Jun-Pyo (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Catholic Industrial Medical Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Hyoung-Ryoul (Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Catholic Industrial Medical Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea)
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention / v.13, no.5, 2012 , pp. 1857-1862 More about this Journal
Abstract
To assess the impact of household income and economic recession on participation in CRC screening, we estimated annual participating proportions from 2007 to 2009 for different CRC screening modalities according to household income levels. A total of 8,042 subjects were derived from the fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES IV). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for CRC screening with household income quartiles by gender in each year. People were less likely to attend a high-cost CRC screening such as a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy independent of the income quartile during the economic recession. Income disparities for participating in opportunistic cancer screening appear to have existed among both males and females during the three years (2007-2009), but were most distinctive in 2009. An increase in mortality of CRC can therefore be expected due to late detection in periods of economic crisis. Accordingly, the government should expand the coverage of CRC screening to prevent excess deaths by reducing related direct and indirect costs during the economic recession.
Keywords
Colorectal cancer; screening participation; household income; economic recession; KNHANES;
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