Factors associated with perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer among latina immigrants in Alabama

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 242-248

  Garcés Palacio, Isabel C ^a   Scarinci, Isabel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Immigrants; Latina; Perceived susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADULT; ALABAMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860882915     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-010-0737-x     Document Type: Article

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