Designing culturally and linguistically appropriate health interventions: The "life is precious" Hmong breast cancer study

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 140-153

  Tanjasiri, Sora Park ^a   Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^b   Foo, Mary Anne ^c   Chao, Maichew ^d   Linayao Putman, Irene ^e   Nguyen, John ^f   Pirumyan, Georgi ^g   Valdez, Annalyn ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance   (United States)

^d Families in Good Health   (United States)

^e Union of Pan Asian Communities   (United States)

^f Stone Soup   (United States)

^g California State University Fullerton ^*

Author keywords

Asian American women; Breast cancer screening; Culturally appropriate; Hmong; Intervention; Language appropriate; Low literacy; Non English speaking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 33846448543     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198105285336     Document Type: Article

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