Perceptions of cancer in an African-American-American community: A focus group report

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 276-283

  Shankar, Sharada ^a   Selvin, Elizabeth ^a   Alberg, Anthony J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer control; Cancer fatalism; Cancer prevention; Health beliefs; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEAR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL CARE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; NEOPLASM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLACKS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; AFRICAN AMERICANS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036093953     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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