Pap smear receipt among Vietnamese immigrants: The importance of health care factors

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 575-589

  Taylor, Victoria M ^a   Yasui, Yutaka ^b   Nguyen, Tung T ^c   Woodall, Erica ^a   Do, H Hoai ^a   Acorda, Elizabeth ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Choe, John ^d   Jackson, J Carey ^d  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Immigrants; Pap testing; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH CARE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; VIETNAM; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

VIET NAM;

EID: 72449181722     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850903111589     Document Type: Article

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