"Health is strength": A community health education program to improve breast and cervical cancer screening among Korean American Women in Alameda County, California

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-183

  Moskowitz, Joel M ^a   Kazinets, Gene ^a   Wong, Joann M ^a   Tager, Ira B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Breast self examination; California; Cancer prevention; Community based participatory research; Intervention studies; Mass screening; Prevention and control of breast neoplasms; Prevention and control of cervix neoplasms; Sociodemographic variables; Utilization of mammography; Utilization of Papanicolaou smear

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; KOREA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247579604     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: 15251500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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