Talking cancer, saving lives: Breast cancer awareness training for health professionals in Hong Kong

International Quarterly of Community Health Education

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-318

  Wong Kim, Evaon ^a   Sormanti, Mary ^b   Tang, Kwong Leung ^c   Ngai, Steven ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; STANDARD; SURVIVOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HONG KONG; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; SURVIVORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 59849125053     PISSN: 0272684X     EISSN: 15413519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IQ.28.4.d     Document Type: Article

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