Does social disadvantage affect the validity of self-report for cervical cancer screening?

International Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-33

  Lofters, Aisha K ^a,b   Moineddin, Rahim ^a,c,d   Hwang, Stephen W ^b,e   Glazier, Richard H ^a,b,c,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early detection of cancer; Pap test; Reproducibility of results; Vaginal smears; Validity; Vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCOME; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84873143479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJWH.S39556     Document Type: Article

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