Recourse to cervical cancer screening for of women residing in two regions of the North of Tunisia;Recours au depistage du cancer du col utérin chez des femmes residant dans deux regions du Nord de la Tunisie

Tunisie Medicale

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 721-730

  Hsairi, Mohamed ^a   Fakhfakh, Radhouene ^a   Bellaaj, Ridha ^b   Achour, Noureddine ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE   (Tunisia)

^b MILITARY HOSPITAL OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Attitude; Behaviour; Cervical cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SENSITIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUNISIA; URBAN AREA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TUNISIA; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842716634     PISSN: 00414131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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