Exploring potential use of internet, E-mail, and instant text messaging to promote breast health and mammogram use among immigrant hispanic women in Los Angeles county

American Surgeon

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 997-1000

  Dang, Catherine M ^a   Estrada, Sylvia ^a   Bresee, Catherine ^a   Phillips, Edward H ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; E-MAIL; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOBILE PHONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY SCHOOL; TEXT MESSAGING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH FAIRS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOS ANGELES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TEXT MESSAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885671388     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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