New York city's Immigrant Minorities: Reducing cancer health disparities

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 2071-2081

  Gany, Francesca M ^a   Shah, Susan M ^a   Changrani, Jyotsna ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Cancer; Community health networks; Community participation; Culture; Ethnicity; Immigration; Minority groups; Research; Training; Urban population

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MINORITY GROUP; MOUTH CANCER; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIGION; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK CITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33749996614     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22155     Document Type: Article

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