Awareness and knowledge about human papillomavirus among latina immigrants

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-333

  Drewry, Jonathan ^a,b   Garceś Palacio, Isabel C ^a   Scarinci, Isabel ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Human Papillomavirus (HPV); Latina immigrants; Pap smear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WART VIRUS; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ALABAMA; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952639569     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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