Cancer knowledge and misconceptions: A survey of immigrant salvadorean women

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 201-211

  Shankar, Sharada ^a   Figueroa Valles, Nayda ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Cancer Knowledge and Misconceptions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EL SALVADOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EL SALVADOR; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033092325     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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