Culture, emotion, and cancer screening: An integrative framework for investigating health behavior

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-90

  Flynn, Patricia M ^a   Betancourt, Hector ^a,b   Ormseth, Sarah R ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Culture; Emotions; Fatalism; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79960589677     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-011-9267-z     Document Type: Article

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