Beliefs about bowel cancer among the target group for the National bowel cancer screening program in Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-192

  Jalleh, Geoffrey ^a   Donovan, Robert J ^a   Lin, Chad ^a   Slevin, Terry ^b   Clayforth, Cassandra ^b   Pratt, Lain S ^b   Ledger, Melissa ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cancer Council Western Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bowel cancer; Screening programs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TELEPHONE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 77952165769     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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