The contribution of culture to Korean American women's cervical cancer screening behavior: The critical role of prevention orientation

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 399-405

  Lee, Hee Yun ^a   Roh, Soonhee ^b   Vang, Suzanne ^c   Jin, Seok Won ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Cervical cancer; Cultural factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MARRIAGE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARITAL STATUS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860243559     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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