Creating a patient navigation model to address cervical cancer disparities in a rural hispanic farmworker community

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1712-1718

  Wells, Kristen J ^a   Rivera, Maria I ^b   Proctor, Sister Sara K ^c   Arroyo, Gloria ^a   Bynum, Shalanda A ^d   Quinn, Gwendolyn P ^b   Luque, John S ^e   Rivera, Marlene ^f   Martinez Tyson, Dinorah ^g   Meade, Cathy D ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Catholic Mobile Medical Services   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer disparities; Cervical cancer; Cervical cancer screening; Farmworkers; Hispanic women; Patient navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PATIENT NAVIGATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84871320446     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0159     Document Type: Article

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