Correlates of mammography utilization among working Muslim Iranian women

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 499-514

  Hatefnia, Effat ^a   Niknami, Shamsaddin ^a   Bazargan, Mohsen ^b   Mahmoodi, Mahmood ^a   Lamyianm, Minoor ^a   Alavi, Nasrien ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 77952347260     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399331003725507     Document Type: Article

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