An assessment of the perceived barriers and strategies to promoting early detection of colorectal cancer: A practitioners' perspective

International Quarterly of Community Health Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-44

  Bajracharya, Srijana M ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34548175018     PISSN: 0272684X     EISSN: 15413519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/13R7-5177-G833-8V85     Document Type: Article

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