The impact of a culturally tailored patient navigator program on cervical cancer prevention in Latina women

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 426-431

  Percac Lima, Sanja ^a,b   Benner, Carly S ^b   Lui, Raymond ^a,b   Aldrich, Leslie S ^a   Oo, Sarah A ^a   Regan, Nessa ^a   Chabner, Bruce A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH PROMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT NAVIGATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877850594     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2012.3900     Document Type: Article

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