The deep south network for cancer control: Eliminating cancer disparities through community - Academic collaboration

Family and Community Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 6-19

  Partridge, Edward E ^a   Fouad, Mona N ^b   Hinton, Agnes W ^c   Hardy, Claudia M ^a   Liscovicz, Nedra ^c   White Johnson, Freddie ^c   Higginbotham, John C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cancer control; Health disparities; Network

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 12444301776     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200501000-00004     Document Type: Article

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