Por la vida model intervention enhances use of cancer screening tests among latinas

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 32-41

  Navarro, Ana M ^a   Senn, Karen L ^b   McNicholas, Lori J ^b   Kaplan, Robert M ^a   Roppé, Beatriz ^a   Campo, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 18244430327     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(98)00023-3     Document Type: Article

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