Cervical Cancer Screening Practices among Latino Women in Chicago

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 251-255

  Peragallo, Nilda P ^a   Alba, Melinda L ^a   Tow, Berenice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN;

EID: 0031204097     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1997.tb00298.x     Document Type: Article

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