Cervical cancer screening in Malaysia: Are targeted interventions necessary?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1089-1093

  Dunn, Richard A ^a   Tan, Andrew K G ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer screening; Education; Ethnicity; Health disparities; Malaysia; Pap smear; Women

Indexed keywords

CANCER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SERVICES; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALAYSIA; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 77955568671     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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