Why the pap test? Awareness and use of the pap test among women in the United States

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 511-515

  Hawkins, Nikki A ^a   Cooper, Crystale Purvis ^b   Saraiya, Mona ^a   Gelb, Cynthia A ^a   Polonec, Lindsey ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Soltera Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954496131     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2011.2730     Document Type: Article

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