Developing and validating a measure of Chinese cultural views of health and cancer

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-375

  Liang, Wenchi ^a,d   Wang, Judy H ^a   Chen, Mei Yuh ^a   Feng, Shibao ^a   Lee, Marion ^b   Schwartz, Marc D ^c   Pasick, Rena J ^b   Mandelblatt, Jeanne S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Colonoscopy; Culture; Mammography; Mass screening; Occult blood; Sigmoidoscopy; Vaginal smears; Women's health

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF MEDICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF MEDICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 43149098979     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: 15526127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090198106294893     Document Type: Article

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