Cleaning the womb: Constructions of cervical screening and womb cancer among rural black women in South Africa

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 283-294

  Wood, Katharine ^a   Jewkes, Rachel ^a   Abrahams, Naeemah ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Cervical cancer; Health promotion; Screening; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PERCEPTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SICK ROLE; SOUTH AFRICA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0030911752     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00344-9     Document Type: Article

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