A pilot program in collaboration with community centers to increase awareness and participation in skin cancer screening among Latinos in Chicago

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 342-345

  Hernandez, Claudia ^a   Kim, Hajwa ^a   Mauleon, Gerardo ^b   Ruiz, Adriana ^a   Robinson, June K ^c   Mermelstein, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF EXAMINATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN TUMOR;

AGED; AWARENESS; CHICAGO; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SELF-EXAMINATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84879505783     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-013-0454-4     Document Type: Article

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