Barriers to follow-up of abnormal screening mammograms among low-income minority women

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-228

  Rojas, Maria ^a   Mandelblatt, Jeanne ^a   Cagney, Kathleen ^a   Kerner, Jon ^a   Freeman, Harold ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Follow up; Low income; Mammography; Minority; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030225345     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.1996.9961790     Document Type: Article

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