The Association of English Functional Health Literacy and the Receipt of Mammography among Hispanic Women Compared to Non-Hispanic U.S.-Born White Women.

Background: Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic women in the U.S., and mammography is the recommended screening for early diagnosing and preventing breast cancer.

Adolescent views on comprehensive health risk assessment and counseling: assessing gender differences.

Purpose: Adolescence is an important time for the detection of health risk behaviors and factors with subsequent counseling and intervention. Limited research has examined adolescent perceptions of comprehensive health risk assessments (HRAs) and counseling with an assessment of gender differences.

Methods: Participants were identified using Florida's Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program databases.

Recruiting low income and racially/ethnically diverse adolescents for focus groups.

Recruiting and enrolling low income, racially and ethnically diverse adolescents into research studies can be a challenge. This paper details our research team's methodology in the recruitment and enrollment of low income and racially/ethnically diverse adolescents in three cities as part of a broader study to understand adolescent perceptions of a health risks. Our team used Florida's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Plan administrative databases to identify a sample of adolescents for focus group participation.

Guideline-inconsistent breast cancer screening for women over 50: a vignette-based survey.

Background: Professional organizations have issued guidelines recommending breast cancer screening for women 50 years of age.

Objective: This study examines the percent of U.S.

Nonrecommended breast and colorectal cancer screening for young women: a vignette-based survey.

Background: Little is known about the prevalence of physicians offering nonrecommended breast or colorectal cancer screening for young women.

Purpose: The goal of the current paper was to examine the percentage of primary care physicians nationally who self-report offering breast or colorectal cancer screening tests for young women, and physician/practice characteristics associated with such recommendations.

Methods: Analysis was performed in 2011 on data from a 2008 cross-sectional survey presenting a vignette of a health maintenance visit by an asymptomatic woman aged 35 years.