The Every Women Matters Program was a program that was put in place to for women to get early cervical and breast cancer screening testing done. This program was for low-income women in the state of Nebraska. Seven different private practices participated in this program. This paper will discuss the reason the program was put into place as well as the reasons it failed.
The Every Women Matters Program was put into place for women between the ages of 40 to 64 with limited income. These women are not on Medicaid or Medicare and do not have private insurance. The program was designed to help women receive education regarding monthly breast self-exams, clinical breast exam, mammogram, Pap test and pelvic exam ("Community Health Services," figure 2).
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There was interference with the individual personality of all the different heath care workers involved. The different organization involved and their organizations cultures play a key part in the program's failure. Whether it was because of the lack of support from higher-ups or from time restraints six of the seven programs didn’t give it, they're all. There were different leadership roles given to different members of a team where there were no incentives nor was there any negativity associated with failure of the program. The East Harlem Partnership for Cancer Awareness (EHPCA) brought together an academic medical center, public hospital, and two community health centers to offer monthly free prostate cancer screening programs in neighborhood community health centers. The programs included an educational component in Spanish and English, digital rectal examinations (DRE), and blood testing for prostate-specific antigen