Correlates of mammography screening among Hispanic women living in lower Rio Grande Valley farmworker communities

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 488-503

  Palmer, Richard C ^a   Fernandez, Maria E ^a   Tortolero Luna, Guillermo ^a   Gonzales, Alicia ^b   Mullen, Patricia Dolan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b National Center for Farmworker Health Inc

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Farmworker; Hispanic; Mammography; Transients and migrants

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 23744502025     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198105276213     Document Type: Article

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