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Table 2 Unadjusted Percentages Cancer Screening by Low Health Literacy (LHL) in 2007 California Health Interview Survey

From: Health literacy and meeting breast and cervical cancer screening guidelines among Asians and whites in California

 

% Mammography

% Pap

All

LHL

Not LHL

P value

All

LHL

Not LHL

P value

All

85.2

78.4

85.2

<0.0001

87.2

83.96

88.16

0.0002

Race/ethnicity

 White

85.9

78.4

86.7

0.0024

89.3

85.7

89.8

0.002

 Asian Overall

82.0

72.3

84.3

0.005

79.3

66.9

81.9

0.0001

Asian Subgroup

 Chinese

85.5

73.2

92.4

<0.0001

77.8

71.5

80.5

0.139

 Japanese

87.3

97.6

86.2

0.064

80.0

77.0

80.5

0.745

 Filipino

83.0

76.2

83.2

0.64

79.5

59.7

80.9

0.061

 Korean

64.3

66.3

63.5

0.82

77.0

63.1

81.1

0.014

 Vietnamese

80.0

64.1

83.1

0.21

83.8

69.1

86.1

0.06

 Other Asian

81.4

66.4

86.0

0.217

79.2

54.4

83.4

0.0025