Assessing awareness and knowledge of breast and cervical cancer among Appalachian women

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lyttle, Nikki L ^a   Stadelman, Kelly ^b  

^a West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources   (United States)

^b RMS Strategies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; APPALACHIAN REGION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 37449020329     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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