Cultural barriers to breast-cancer screening take-up

Daniele Corrias ()
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Daniele Corrias: University of Padova

No 333, "Marco Fanno" Working Papers from Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno"

Abstract: I study the cultural determinants of breast-cancer screening take-up, focusing on the role of religious beliefs. To isolate the effect of culture from the institutional environment to which women are exposed, I apply the epidemiological approach, comparing first- and second-generation immigrants living in the same European host country and exploiting cross-country of origin variation in religiosity. By merging individual data from SHARE and UKHLS with country-level information from the World Values Survey, I find that higher religious intensity significantly reduces the probability of mammography screening uptake.

Keywords: : cancer screening; culture; religiosity; epidemiological approach. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
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