Community-driven approaches for reducing health disparities in cancer

JAMA

Volumn 303, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1090-1091

  Partridge, Edward ^a   Fouad, Mona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY CARE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 77949529721     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.282     Document Type: Note

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