In search of the cancer candidate: Can lay epidemiology help?

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 575-591

  Macdonald, Sara ^a   Watt, Graham ^a   Macleod, Una ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Candidacy; Health beliefs; Lay epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SPOUSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; SPOUSES; WALES;

EID: 84877596262     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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