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Self-Reported Breast Cancer Screening Among Women by Race/Ethnicity, New Jersey, 2011 to 2021
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Why Is This Important?
About one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer during their lifetime and this risk increases with age. A mammogram is an X-ray picture of the breast and is the most accurate tool for detecting breast cancer. Health care providers use a mammogram to look for early signs of breast cancer.
Definition
Estimated percentage of New Jersey women aged 50 to 74 years who reported having a mammogram in the last two years. Estimates are age-adjusted using the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- No data were collected in 2019.
Data Source
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health(http://www.nj.gov/health/chs/njbrfs/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
The number of women 50 to 74 years or older who reported having a mammogram in the last two years.Denominator:
The total number of female survey respondents aged 50 to 74 excluding those who responded "don't know" or "refused" to the numerator question.
Data Issues
Data from the New Jersey Behavioral Risk Factor Survey are intended to be representative of all non-institutionalized adult residents of New Jersey. Due to resource issues, however, adults with limited personal access to phone service or limited command of either English or Spanish are not represented. As with all surveys, also, some error results from nonresponse (e.g., refusal to participate in the survey or to answer specific questions), and faulty measurement (e.g., responses affected by social desirability or recall error). Data collection procedures intended to minimize such errors include the use of strict calling protocols, good questionnaire design, standardization of interviewer behavior, interviewer training, and frequent, on-site interviewer monitoring and supervision. Statistical weighting procedures are also used to minimize the potential impact of disproportionate representation of demographic subgroups defined in terms of age, sex, race, ethnicity, education level, marital status, home ownership, and county of residence. (See also [[a href="query/BRFSSQueryTechNotes.html" Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Data Description and Technical Notes]].)Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective C-05
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of females aged 50 to 74 years who receive a breast cancer screening to 80.3 percent (age-adjusted) by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/cancer/increase-proportion-females-who-get-screened-breast-cancer-c-05
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective C-17
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of women aged 50 to 74 years who receive a breast cancer screening to 81.1 percent (age-adjusted) by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/cancer
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective CA-16
NJ Target: Increase breast cancer screening among women aged 50 to 74 years to 87.5 percent (age-adjusted) for the total population, 80.2% for Asians, 93.5% for Blacks, 91.9% for Hispanics, and 86.4% for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/cancer.shtml
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator CAN09
Description: Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/cancer.html
Health Initiative: EPHT
Environmental Public Health Tracking Indicator PV-184
Description: Prevalence among adults of health insurance, dental visits, mammography, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening, cholesterol screening
https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/indicatorPages?selectedContentAreaAbbreviation=13&selectedIndicatorId=184