Two major ethical issues in health education and promotion: Assessing stage of change and cancer screening

Family and Community Health

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 50-61

  Mondragón, Delfi ^a   Brandon, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Community health education and promotion; Ethics; Freedom; Insurance; Nonmaleficence; Poor communities; Stage of behavioral change assessment; US Mexico border

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FREEDOM; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; FREEDOM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MASS SCREENING; MEXICAN AMERICANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035230872     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200101000-00007     Document Type: Article

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