An exploration of opportunities and challenges facing cervical cancer managers in Kenya

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kivuti Bitok, Lucy W ^a   Pokhariyal, Ganesh P ^a   Abdul, Roudsari ^b   McDonnell, Geoff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cervical cancer; Challenges; Health care managers; Kenya; Opportunities

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KENYA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MOBILE PHONE; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CELL PHONES; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; CELLULAR PHONE;

EID: 84875828046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-136     Document Type: Article

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