Increasing mammography screening among low-income African American women with limited access to health information

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 880-887

  Danigelis, Nicholas L ^a   Worden, John K ^a,b   Flynn, Brian S ^a,b   Skelly, Joan M ^a   Vacek, Pamela M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Breast cancer; Low income populations; Mammography; Medically underserved area; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17844398736     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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