Collaboration to increase colorectal cancer screening among low-income uninsured patients

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Redwood, Diana ^a   Holman, Larry ^a   Zandman Zeman, Sharon ^b   Hunt, Tom ^b   Besh, Leah ^b   Katinszky, Wanda ^c  

^a Ride for Life Alaska   (United States)

^b Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center   (United States)

^c Providence Alaska Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COOPERATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PATIENT; POVERTY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALASKA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FUND RAISING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; POVERTY;

EID: 80051951014     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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