Colorectal cancer test use among Californians of Mexican origin: Influence of language barriers

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-322

  Johnson Kozlow, Marilyn ^a   Roussos, Stergios ^a   Rovniak, Liza ^a   Hovell, Melbourne ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Mexican Americans; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; AGED; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISPANIC; LANGUAGE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 70349771039     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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