3-13. | Increase the proportion of women aged 40 years and older who have received a mammogram within the preceding 2 years. |
Target: 70 percent.
Baseline: 67 percent of women aged 40 years and older received a mammogram within the preceding 2 years in 1998 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Women Aged 40 Years and Older, 1998 (unless noted) |
Mammogram |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
67 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
45 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
61 |
|
Asian |
61 |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific lslander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
66 |
|
White |
67 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
61 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
68 |
|
Black or African American |
66 |
|
White |
68 |
|
Education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
53 |
|
High school graduate |
66 |
|
At least some college |
73 |
|
Family income level |
|
|
Poor |
50 |
|
Near Poor |
54 |
|
Middle/high income |
73 |
|
Geographic location |
|
|
Urban |
68 |
|
Rural |
65 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with activity limitations |
55 (1994) |
|
Persons without activity limitations |
61 (1994) |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected.
DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.