Breast cancer knowledge, attitudes, and screening behaviors among African American women: The Black cosmetologists promoting health program

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sadler, Georgia R ^a   Ko, Celine M ^a   Cohn, Jennifer A ^a   White, Monique ^a   Weldon, Rai Nesha ^a   Wu, Phillis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SELF EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEAUTY CULTURE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION;

EID: 34247566247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-57     Document Type: Article

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