'Too much trouble for what I get out of it': Acceptability of cancer screening tests among low-income rural men and women in the Deep South

Public Health

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-66

  Martin, M Y ^a   Kratt, P ^a   Kim, Y ^a   Schoenberger, Y M ^a   Pisu, M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL POPULATION; SERVICE PROVISION;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PROSTATE CANCER; RURAL AREA; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84155172738     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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