Health Beliefs and Practices Related to Cancer Screening Among Arab Muslim Women in an Urban Community

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-74

  Salman, Khlood Faik ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; ISLAM; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858649982     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2011.610536     Document Type: Article

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