Attitudes toward hepatitis B and liver cancer prevention among Chinese Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 605-613

  Chang, Ellen T ^a,b   Nguyen, Bang H ^a   So, Samuel K S ^b  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese Americans; Focus groups; Hepatitis B; Liver cancer; Prevention control

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAN FRANCISCO; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149109652     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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