Using lay health advisors to promote breast and cervical cancer screening among Latinas: A review

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 259-262

  Martínez Donate, Ana P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MINORITY GROUP; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350497115     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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