Women's perspectives on illness when being screened for cervical cancer

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Hounsgaard, Lise ^a,b   Augustussen, Mikaela ^c   Møller, Helle ^d   Bradley, Stephen K ^e   Møller, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENLAND   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Ministry of Health and Infrastructure   (Greenland)

^d LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Greenland; HPV; Interview; Nursing; Perceptions of health and disease; Public health programming; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMMING; SCREENING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; WART VIRUS;

CERVICAL CANCER; GREENLAND; HPV; INTERVIEW; NURSING; PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMMING; SCREENING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREENLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84881283678     PISSN: 12399736     EISSN: 22423982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21089     Document Type: Article

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