A mixed-method assessment of beliefs and practice around breast cancer in Ethiopia: Implications for public health programming and cancer control

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 719-731

  de Ver Dye, Timothy ^a,b   Bogale, Solomon ^c   Hobden, Claire ^d   Tilahun, Yared ^e   Hechter, Vanessa ^f   Deressa, Teshome ^g   Bize, Marion ^a   Reeler, Anne ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Axios International   (France)

^c TIKUR ANBESSA HOSPITAL   (Ethiopia)

^d Axios International Global Health Systems and Research   (United States)

^e Axios Foundation   (Ethiopia)

^f Ethiopia Cancer Association ^*  (South Africa)

^g Ethiopia Cancer Association   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Breast cancer; Ethiopia; Ethnomedicine; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 80052470395     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.510479     Document Type: Article

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