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Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela

Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela

Mahmoud Eid, Isaac Nahon-Serfaty
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 22
ISSN: 2328-5494|EISSN: 2328-5508|EISBN13: 9781466680814|DOI: 10.4018/IJCESC.2015010104
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Eid, Mahmoud, and Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. "Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela." IJCESC vol.2, no.1 2015: pp.43-64. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCESC.2015010104

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Eid, M. & Nahon-Serfaty, I. (2015). Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela. International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC), 2(1), 43-64. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCESC.2015010104

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Eid, Mahmoud, and Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. "Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela," International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change (IJCESC) 2, no.1: 43-64. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCESC.2015010104

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Abstract

The prevalence of breast cancer in Venezuela is particularly alarming, which is attributed to healthcare inequalities, low health literacy, and lagging compliance with prevention methods (i.e., screening and mammography). While the right to health is acknowledged by the Venezuelan constitution, activism beyond governmental confines is required to increase women's breast cancer awareness and decrease mortality rates. Through the development of social support and strategic communicative methods enacted by healthcare providers, it may be possible to empower women with the tools necessary for breast cancer prevention. This paper discusses issues surrounding women's breast cancer, such as awareness of the disease and its risks, self-advocacy, and the roles of activists, healthcare providers, and society. Specifically, it describes a four-year action-oriented research project developed in Venezuela, which was a collaborative work among researchers, practitioners, NGOs, patients, journalists, and policymakers. The outcomes include higher levels of awareness and interest among community members and organizations to learn and seek more information about women's breast cancer, better understandings of the communicated messages, more media coverage and medical consultations, increasing positive patient treatments, expansion of networking of NGOs, as well as a widely supported declaration for a national response against breast cancer in Venezuela.

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