Breast and cervical cancer screening: Impact of health insurance status, ethnicity, and nativity of Latinas

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Rodríguez, Michael A ^a   Ward, Lisa M ^b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cervix neoplasms; Delivery of health care; Minority groups; Prevention control, Hispanic Americans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20444374467     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.291     Document Type: Review

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