Is not clear what is causing these disparities and we were not able to assess those aspects in this particular study. We can only speculate that it might be due to a lack of resources such as transportation, daycare or health centers in deprived areas.

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One of the US's Healthy People 2010 goal is to decrease the proportion of black women who are not up-to-date on their screening from 17 percent to 10 percent.

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