Community action for cancer prevention: Overview of the cancer action in rural towns (CART) project, Australia

Health Promotion International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 277-290

  Hancock, Lynne ^a   Sanson Fisher, Rob ^a   Redman, Sally ^b   Burton, Robert ^a   Burton, Louise ^c   Butler, Jim ^d   Gibberd, Robert ^a   Girgis, Afaf ^a   Hensley, Michael ^a   Mcclintock, Ann ^c   Reid, Alexander ^a   Schofield, Margot ^a   Tripodi, Tony ^a   Walsh, Raoul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b National Breast Cancer Centre   (Australia)

^c CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^d The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; Community action

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 10544251061     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/11.4.277     Document Type: Article

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