Knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and cancer screening among inner-city African-American women

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 405-411

  Sung, John F C ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel S ^a,b   Coates, Ralph J ^a   Alema Mensah, Ernest ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical breast examination; Inner city women; Mammography; Papanicolaou test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031159490     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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