Preventive Care Disruptions and Emergency Hospitalizations (opens in new tab)

This paper studies whether interruptions to organized breast cancer screening lead to greater later use of emergency hospital care. It focuses on the first wave of COVID-19, when routine mammography was widely reduced across Europe, disrupting the usual screening pathway of early detection, follow-up testing, referral, and planned treatment. Using SHARE data from eight countries, the authors examine women aged 50 to 69, the main target group...