Preventive care for women in prison: A qualitative community health assessment of the Papanicolaou test and follow-up treatment at a California state woments prison

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1712-1717

  Magee, Catherine G ^a   Hult, Jen R ^a,b   Turalba, Ruby ^a   McMillan, Shelby ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERVIEW; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRISON; PRISONER; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRISONERS; PRISONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 25444491941     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063677     Document Type: Review

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