Exploration of factors linked with high cervical cancer rates in women from the former Yugoslavia in Victoria, Australia

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-220

  Fernbach, Madeline ^a,b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Department of Education   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barriers; Cervical screening; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; STRESS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; VICTORIA; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0036705451     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355785022000042033     Document Type: Article

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