Attitudes to colorectal cancer screening among ethnic minority groups in the UK

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Robb, Kathryn A ^a   Solarin, Ijeoma ^a   Power, Emily ^a   Atkin, Wendy ^b   Wardle, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BANGLADESH; CANCER SCREENING; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINESE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; HUMAN; INDIAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PAKISTAN; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RELIGION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 40849131039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-34     Document Type: Article

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