Cancer-related information seeking and scanning behavior of older Vietnamese immigrants

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 754-768

  Nguyen, Giang T ^a,b,c   Shungu, Nicholas P ^b   Niederdeppe, Jeff ^d   Barg, Frances K ^a,b   Holmes, John H ^e   Armstrong, Katrina ^e   Hornik, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SEEKING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VIET NAM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIETNAM;

EID: 78649493612     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2010.514034     Document Type: Article

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