Language use and the receipt of cancer screening recommendations by immigrant chinese american women

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-207

  Liang, Wenchi ^a,b   Wang, Judy H ^a   Chen, Mei Yuh ^a   Mandelblatt, Jeanne S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; ASIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 59349086918     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2007.0709     Document Type: Article

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