The 2003 Australian Breast Health Survey: Survey design and preliminary results

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Villanueva, Elmer V ^a,b   Jones, Sandra ^c   Nehill, Caroline ^a   Favelle, Simone ^c   Steel, David ^c   Iverson, Donald ^c   Zorbas, Helen ^a  

^a National Breast Cancer Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; BREASTSCREEN ASUTRALIA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATIFICATION; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 39649093158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-13     Document Type: Article

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