Factors associated with low screening for breast cancer in the Palestinian authority: Relations of availability, environmental barriers, and cancer-related fatalism

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4646-4655

  Azaiza, Faisal ^a   Cohen, Miri ^a   Awad, Mariam ^b   Daoud, Francoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Arab women; Barriers; Cancer related fatalism; Screening for breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CHRISTIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; ARABS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 77957575797     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25378     Document Type: Article

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