부산대학교 도서관

This paper uses British Household Panel Study data to examine the frequency of women's use of four preventive/screening health services: breast cancer screening, cervical cytology, opticians and dentists. Although the take-up rate for all four services is high, there is a relationship between material deprivation, age, social class and service use. The pattern of differential uptake is complex and demographic variables are not very successful at predicting who will take up which service. Whether the service costs money, or access to it is means-tested, appears to be a major determinant of whether demographic variables predict uptake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]