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7858652

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-23
pubmed:abstractText
The Atlanta Project, one of six American Cancer Society demonstration projects, is a community-designed and -directed breast and cervical cancer screening program focused on empowering African-American women to accept responsibility for their health maintenance. This article reports the project's goals, objectives, intervention strategies, roles of key project personnel, and outcomes. A total of 3852 women older than 40 years received breast clinical examinations, were taught breast self-examination, and had a screening mammogram; 2689 women obtained a pelvic examination and were screened for cervical cancer with a Papanicolaou smear. Of those women screened, 12 breast and 1 cervical cancers were identified and treated. Important lessons learned and successes achieved from this project were: (1) there is a need for joint planning with community representatives and their involvement in all aspects of the program's implementation and evaluation; (2) in addition to the commitment of the major participants, the community must "buy in" to the proposed health intervention; (3) the focus of the intervention should be on positive health messages; (4) cancer education materials should be culturally and literacy-appropriate; (5) the project's activities were planned to be sustained after the project period; (6) women can be empowered to accept responsibility for and control over their health.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1065-4704
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
256-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Community-directed cancer screening program.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't