Fear Fatalism and Breast Cancer Screening in Low-Income African-American Women: The Role of Clinicians and the Health Care System

摘要

BackgroundAfrican-American women have the highest breast cancer death rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the US. Reasons for these disparities are multi-factorial, but include lower mammogram utilization among this population. Cultural attitudes and beliefs, such as fear and fatalism, have not been fully explored as potential barriers to mammography among African-American women.