Cancer risk and risk communication in urban, lower-income neighborhoods

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 392-396

  Kelly, Kimberly M ^a,b   Ferketich, Amy K ^a,b   Sturm, Amy C ^a   Porter, Kyle ^a   Sweet, Kevin ^a   Kemp, Kathleen ^a   Schwirian, Patricia ^a   Westman, Judith A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Cancer; Family history; Perceived risk; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; FAMILY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TELEPHONE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449120074     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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