Comparison of breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns in a common cohort of South Asian women in England

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Price, Charlotte L ^a   Szczepura, Ala K ^a   Gumber, Anil K ^a   Patnick, Julietta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TUMOR; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; STATE MEDICINE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77951212233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-103     Document Type: Article

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