Early breast cancer detection practices, health beliefs, and cancer worries in Jewish and Arab women

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 852-858

  Cohen, Miri ^a   Azaiza, Faisal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arab and Jewish women; Breast examination practices; Cancer worries; Health belief model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARAB; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 28844446627     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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