PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cervical Screening, Risk Management, Risk Society
2 Oct 2018
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Topics in health psychology- lecture 15 and chapter 13. How much burden are we putting on peoples lives: debates about effectiveness of particular forms. If you have a disease that is aggressive, screening isn(cid:495)t a good: you need to have the right disease profile for screening to be idea worth while. Cancer screening: recommendations, pap smears to check for cervical cancer, in women from ages 21 to 65, mammograms to check for breast cancer, for women after the age of. 40, 59, or 75: colon cancer screening, for men and women ages 50 to 75. Cervical cancer: much less prevalent (12th most common cancer in women); 2% of cancers in women. Barriers to attendance: not-attenders, study: rimer et al. 1989: belief that screening is not necessary in the absence of symptoms. It ends up finding the problem with them than the systemic issue really is.
