Eliminating disparities in cancer screening and follow-up of abnormal results: What will it take?

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-100

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a   Humiston, Sharon ^b   Hendren, Samantha ^c   Winters, Paul ^b   Jean Pierre, Pascal ^d   Idris, Amna ^b   Ford, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UR SOM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Disparities; Income poverty; Minority groups

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POVERTY; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; POVERTY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79951635840     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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