Prostate cancer awareness, knowledge, and screening practices among older men in Oyo State, Nigeria

International Quarterly of Community Health Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-286

  Oladimeji, Oladepo ^a   Bidemi, Yusuf ^a   Olufisayo, John Akinola ^a   Sola, Arulogun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSTATE TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957559713     PISSN: 0272684X     EISSN: 15413519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IQ.30.3.g     Document Type: Article

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