Community Health Navigators for Breast- and Cervical-Cancer Screening Among Cambodian and Laotian Women: Intervention Strategies and Relationship-Building Processes

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-367

  Ngoc Nguyen, Tu Uyen ^a   Tanjasiri, Sora Park ^a   Kagawa Singer, Marjorie ^b   Tran, Jacqueline H ^c   Foo, Mary Anne ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance ^*  (United States)

^d Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

advocacy; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; breast and cervical cancer screening; Cambodians; cancer prevention and control; community health navigators; community health promotion; Laotians

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRUST; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOS ANGELES; MASS SCREENING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRUST; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58849110390     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906290251     Document Type: Article

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