Promoting attendance at cervical cancer screening: Understanding the relationship with Turkish womens' health beliefs

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 333-340

  Demirtas, Basak ^a   Acikgoz, Inci ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical cancer screening; Health belief; Pap smear test; Turkish women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877148110     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.1.333     Document Type: Article

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