'I can't get my husband to go and have a colonoscopy': Gender and screening for colorectal cancer

Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-249

  Thompson, Lee ^a   Reeder, Tony ^a   Abel, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

ethnicity and health; gender and health; race; theory

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84860449766     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459311403948     Document Type: Article

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