Advisory Committee Chair
Connie Kohler
Advisory Committee Members
Pauline Jolly
Nedra Lisovicz
Michelle Martin
Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe
Stuart Usdan
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
2011
Degree Name by School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) School of Public Health
Abstract
Most African countries including Tanzania have limited cervical cancer screening and treatment programs. Only about 5% of women have ever been screened for cervical cancer. A constellation of individual and structural factors contributes to the challenge of cervical cancer screening and treatment in countries that bear significant burdens of disease. Yet, little is known about country specific factors that may constrain or facilitate scale up of health services. This dissertation is an attempt to identify and understand the country specific individual and structural barriers along with facilitators to cervical cancer screening and treatment in Tanzania. Individual, institutional and structural level influences are explored to better understand barriers and facilitators to secondary prevention of cervical cancer. This dissertation is comprised of three interrelated studies-one quantitative and two qualitative studies.
Recommended Citation
McCree, Renicha Tomeka, "Individual, socio-cultural and structural factors associated with cervical cancer screening and treatment in Tanzania" (2011). All ETDs from UAB. 2429.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/2429