Factors that may discourage annual mammography among low-income women with access to free mammograms: A study using multi-ethnic, multiracial focus groups

Psychological Reports

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 405-416

  Bobo, Janet Kay ^a   Dean, Denita ^a   Stovall, Christina ^b   Mendez, Margaret ^b   Caplan, Lee ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RACE; RADIOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033201757     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.405     Document Type: Article

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