Challenges in providing breast and cervical cancer screening services to Vietnamese Canadian women: The healthcare providers' perspective

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 158-168

  Donnelly, Tam Truong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer and cervical cancer screening; Cancer prevention; Immigrant women cancer preventive care; Vietnamese Canadian women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIET NAM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VIETNAM; WOMEN;

EID: 43449116627     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: 14401800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2008.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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