Factors related to noncompliance with screening mammogram appointments among low-income African-American women

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 237-246

  Crump, Sherry R ^a,b   Mayberry, Robert M ^a   Taylor, Beverly D ^a   Barefield, Kaye P ^a   Thomas, Peter E ^a  

^a GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Low income; Mammogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCOME; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034185936     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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