Effects and sustainability of a cervical screening program in remote Aboriginal Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Mak, Donna ^a   Straton, Judith A Y ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0030913858     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1997.tb01656.x     Document Type: Article

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