Community health workers, social support and cervical cancer screening among high-risk groups in rural Mexico

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1448-1459

  Elliott, Patrick F ^a,b,c   Belinson, Suzanne E ^d   Ottolenghi, Emma ^e   Smyth, Kathleen ^a   Belinson, Jerome L ^f  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Internal Medicine Brigham   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^e CWRU SOM ^*

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Community health worker; Social support; Uterine cervical neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84887112526     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0180     Document Type: Article

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