Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of women of Victoria who were in the hospital admitted at least once during the period 2000–2013 by their country of birth (women who were born in Australia, Muslim and Non–Muslim countries) (Source: Victorian Admitted Episodes Database).
Table 2.
Apparent screening rates (ASR) of hospitalized women by their country of birth (women who were born in Australia, Muslim and Non–Muslim countries) in 2012–2013.
Fig 1.
ASR of women who were born in Australia, Muslim and Non–Muslim countries in 2012–2013 by age.
Fig 2.
ASR for women who were born in Muslim countries in 2012–2013 adjusted for age (Countries have been arranged by number of women in descending order).
Fig 3.
ASR for women who were born in Australia and other Non-Muslim countries in2012-2013 adjusted for age (Countries have been arranged by number of women in descending order).
Table 3.
Association of breast screening participation status with factors such as country of birth, marital status, age, and socio-economic status based on a multi-variate logistic regression model (N = 938,560).
Fig 4.
Comparative analysis of screening rate estimates for women aged 50–74 born in Muslim countries from both linked and unlinked datasets with their Australian counterpart (Countries with more than 100 women were reported only).
Data Sources: Crude rate for age 50–74 from VAED and BSV linked data for women who were born in Muslim countries and Australia (Numerator from Breast Screen Victoria (BSV) registry linked with Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and Denominator from VAED). Crude rate for age 50–74 from BSV data for women who were born in Muslim countries and Australia (Numerator from BSV and Denominator from ABS census estimates, obtained via the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services).
Fig 5.
Comparative analysis of screening rate estimates for women aged 50–74 born in Non-Muslim countries from both linked and unlinked datasets with their Australian counterpart (Countries with more than 100 women were reported only).
Data Sources: Crude rate for age 50–74 from VAED and BSV linked data for women who were born in Non- Muslim countries and Australia (Numerator from Breast Screen Victoria (BSV) registry linked with Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED) and Denominator from VAED). Crude rate for age 50–74 from BSV data for women who were born in Non-Muslim countries and Australia (Numerator from BSV and Denominator from ABS census estimates, obtained via the Victorian Department of Health and Human Service).