The role of education in the uptake of preventative health care: The case of cervical screening in Britain

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2998-3010

  Sabates, Ricardo ^a   Feinstein, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Cancer; Education; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATION; POLICY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROBABILITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646152534     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.032     Document Type: Article

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