The effect of a church-based breast cancer screening education program on mammography rates among African-American women

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 100-106

  Husaini, Baqar A ^a   Sherkat, Darren E ^b   Levine, Robert ^b   Bragg, Richard ^b   Cain, Van A ^b   Emerson, Janice S ^b   Mentes, Christina M ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

African; American; Cancer screening; Church based; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMMUNITY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; RADIOGRAPHY; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036002343     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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