Opening pathways to cancer screening for Vietnamese-American women: Lay health workers hold a key

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 821-829

  Bird, Joyce Adair ^a   McPhee, Stephen J ^b   Ha, Ngoc The ^b   Le, Bich ^b   Davis, Thomas ^b   Jenkins, Christopher N H ^b  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Cervical cancer screening; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0032421349     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0365     Document Type: Article

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