Traditionality and cancer screening practices among American Indian women in Vermont

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-181

  Canales, Mary K ^a,c   Rakowski, William ^b   Howard, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERMONT;

EID: 33847078817     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330601128544     Document Type: Article

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