Cultural perspectives of international breast health and breast cancer education

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-112

  Meneses, Karen Dow ^a,c   Yarbro, Connie Henke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer education; Culture; International breast health education; Train the trainer curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547326612     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2007.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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