Cervical Cancer Screening Among Medicaid Patients During Natural Disasters and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico, 2016 to 2020

Ana Patricia Ortiz; Axel Gierbolini-Bermúdez; Jeslie M Ramos-Cartagena; Vivian Colón-López; Kalyani Sonawane; Ashish A Deshmukh; Karen J Ortiz-Ortiz

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28806

Cervical Cancer Screening Among Medicaid Patients During Natural Disasters and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico, 2016 to 2020

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Oct 1;4(10):e2128806. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28806.

Authors

Ana Patricia Ortiz¹, Axel Gierbolini-Bermúdez², Jeslie M Ramos-Cartagena³, Vivian Colón-López¹, Kalyani Sonawane⁴, Ashish A Deshmukh⁴, Karen J Ortiz-Ortiz¹

Affiliations

¹ University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
² Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
³ Department of University of Puerto Rico/MD Anderson Cancer Center Partnership for Excellence in Cancer Research Program, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
⁴ Center for Health Services Research, Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, University of Texas Health School of Public Health, Houston.

Abstract

This cohort study examines rates of cervical cancer screening in Puerto Rico among women with Medicaid health coverage following the 2017 hurricanes, earthquakes in late 2019-2020, and the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.

Publication types

Observational Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Cyclonic Storms*
Databases, Factual
Early Detection of Cancer / statistics & numerical data
Earthquakes*
Female
Humans
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data*
Medicaid / statistics & numerical data
Pandemics*
Puerto Rico / epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / prevention & control

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding