Refinement of an educational toolkit to promote cervical cancer screening among Hispanic immigrant women in rural southern Georgia

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1704-1711

  Watson Johnson, Lisa C ^a   Bhagatwala, Jigar ^a   Reyes Garcia, Claudia ^a   Hinojosa, Andrea ^b   Mason, Mondi ^a   Meade, Cathy D ^c,d   Luque, John S ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southeast Georgia Communities Project   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Community health worker; Health education; Hispanics; Human papilloma virus; Latinas; Promotora

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RURAL POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84871333060     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0150     Document Type: Article

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