Privacy or life: How do women find out about screening mammography services?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1161, 2002, Pages

  Brunton, Margaret ^a   Thomas, David R ^b  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS COMMUNICATION; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIVACY; BREAST TUMOR; ETHICS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOGRAPHY; SOCIAL MARKETING; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIVACY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 0037072693     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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