The Deep South Network for cancer control: Building a community infrastructure to reduce cancer health disparities

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 1971-1979

  Lisovicz, Nedra ^a,f   Johnson, Rhoda E ^b   Higginbotham, John ^b   Downey, Jennifer A ^c   Hardy, Claudia M ^d   Fouad, Mona N ^a   Hinton, Agnes W ^c   Partridge, Edward E ^e  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Awareness; Cancer prevention and control; Collaboration; Community health networks; Community outreach; Education; Rural population; Screening; Urban population

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY HEALTH ADVISOR MODEL; DEEP SOUTH NETWORK MODEL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33750018299     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22151     Document Type: Article

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