Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 16, Issue 32 , Pages 50-58 , November 2008

Social inequality in Pap smear coverage: identifying under-users of cervical cancer screening in Argentina

  • Silvina Arrossi

      Affiliations

    • Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • ,
  • Silvina Ramos

      Affiliations

    • Director, CEDES, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • ,
  • Melisa Paolino

      Affiliations

    • Research Assistant, CEDES, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • ,
  • Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

      Affiliations

    • Chief, Screening Unit, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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doi: 10.1016/S0968-8080(08)32410-0

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