Costs and cost-effectiveness of a church-based intervention to promote mammography screening

Health Services Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 1037-1057

  Stockdale, S E ^a   Keeler, E ^a   Duan, N ^a   Derose, K P ^a   Fox, S A ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Church based health education; Cost effectiveness; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RELIGION; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRISTIANITY; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0034541446     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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