Gender differences in attitudes impeding colorectal cancer screening

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ritvo, Paul ^a,b   Myers, Ronald E ^c   Paszat, Lawrence ^d,e   Serenity, Mardie ^f   Perez, Daniel F ^a,b   Rabeneck, Linda ^g,h  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Research Prevention and Cancer Control   (Canada)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878005406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-500     Document Type: Article

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