Delivering breast and cervical cancer screening services to underserved women: * Part I. Literature review and telephone survey

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 65-73

  Vellozzi, Claudia J ^a   Romans, Martha ^b   Rothenberg, Richard B ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Jacobs Institute for Women's Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0029878397     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1049-3867(96)00002-3     Document Type: Article

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