Breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns over 15 years for UK south Asian ethnic minority populations, corrected for differences in socio-demographic characteristics

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Szczepura, Ala ^a   Price, Charlotte ^a   Gumber, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MOSLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; ASIA; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; INTESTINE TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PILOT STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ASIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 55149126066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-346     Document Type: Article

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