ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Church-Based Breast Cancer Screening Education: Impact of Two Approaches on Latinas Enrolled in Public and Private Health Insurance Plans

	Promotora Intervention		Printed Intervention
	Baseline	Follow-up	Baseline	Follow-up
Overall	58.96	60.85	58.07	58.48
Medicaid FFS^a	37.40	43.70	43.16	49.29
Medicare FFS^a	36.96	42.86	43.57	49.25
HMO-group	54.64	58.77	57.17	48.92
HMO-staff	73.02	71.76	78.09	73.28

Figure. Mammogram rates of Latinas exposed to the Printed Intervention or the Promotora Intervention during baseline (1998–1999) and follow-up (2000–2001), by insurance plan, Tepeyac Project, Colorado, 1999–2005.

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH Church-Based Breast Cancer Screening Education: Impact of Two Approaches on Latinas Enrolled in Public and Private Health Insurance Plans

ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Church-Based Breast Cancer Screening Education: Impact of Two Approaches on Latinas Enrolled in Public and Private Health Insurance Plans