ng, controlling or preventing a serious disease. It is important that more be done to look at women’s personal knowledge of diseases and the differences among various age groups awareness of information regarding risk factors associated with serious diseases and how these women see themselves and their possible vulnerability to developing serious diseases. If more studies were done on these aspects and the focus of the study was to compare these variables, it could lead to more reliable and useful results. If a theory is tested and retested and similar results are documented then it is more reliable information to use to help women become better educated and more active in preventing serious and potentially life threatening diseases. Also these studies could be effective in establishing a relationship between these aspects, and early detection testing which would result in changing of health behaviors so that these diseases can be prevented more often.The study was based on a sample of 200 women, whose ages were between 41-95 years old and they were all from the San Francisco Bay area in California. The article mentions that an effort was made to seek out a “diverse” sample that was representative of the general population by trying to get women from all types of communities and age groups to participate in the survey. Some of the surveys were filled out (132) by women at locations such as senior health fairs and at a health fair in a neighborhood that consisted of individuals who had limited levels of education, with different ethnic origins. Some of the women did not fill out the survey at the site where the surveys were being distributed but they took them with them. Of the 131 surveys allowed to be taken and filled out and returned, only 68 were returned. The study used a survey which they had women age 40 and older fill out. The surveys were designed so that the women's identities would remain anonymous,...
