Raising Awareness and Providing Free Screening Improves Cervical Cancer Screening Among Economically Disadvantaged Lebanese/Armenian Women

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 357-364

  Arevian, Mary ^a   Noureddine, Samar ^a   Kabakian Khasholian, Tamar ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

cervical cancer screening; Pap smear; women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEBANON; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARMENIA; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOMEN;

EID: 33748333156     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659606291542     Document Type: Article

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