Immigrant women's cancer screening behaviors

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-45

  Ivanov, L Louise ^a   Hu, Jie ^a   Leak, Ashley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; USSR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; USSR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949095382     PISSN: 07370016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370010903466163     Document Type: Article

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