PAP SCREENING IN THE RIO-GRANDE VALLEY - A CASE-STUDY

Hispanic women are less likely than Angle women to obtain cervical can cer screening. This article describes a project conducted in the lower Rio Grande Valley to encourage indigent, mature, Hispanic women to ob tain Pap screening. Social and demographic data were correlated. The p roject's results indicate that it is possible to motivate the targeted population to obtain Pap screening. They also suggest that community health workers were very helpful in motivating this community's women and that these women continue to need informal, active encouragement f rom many sources.