Correlates of cervical cancer screening among women in Taiwan

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 384-398

  Hou, Su I ^a   Fernandez, Maria E ^b   Baumler, Elizabeth ^b   Parcel, Guy S ^b   Chen, Pai Ho ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHENG CHING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ETHNOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0141610820     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390212171     Document Type: Article

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