Cancer Screening Behaviors Among Canadian Women Living With Physical Disabilities

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 597-603

  Cooper, Nicole S ^a   Yoshida, Karen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disabled persons; Preventive health services; Rehabilitation; Vaginal smears; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER SCREENING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 34247201539     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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