The impact of social class on the use of cancer screening within three racial/ethnic groups in the United States

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-51

  Hoffman Goetz, Laurie ^a,b   Breen, Nancy L ^a   Meissner, Helen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

FOBT; Mammography; Minority Groups; Papanicolaou Smear; Screening; Sigmoidoscopy; Social Class

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032325897     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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