Testing to prevent colon cancer: How rural community members took on a community-based intervention

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 568-570

  Norman, Ned ^a   Cowart, Shirley ^a   Felzien, Maret ^a   Haynes, Connie ^a   Hernandez, Mike ^a   Rodriquez, Mary Petra ^a   Sanchez, Norah ^a   Sanchez, Sergio ^a   Winkelman, Kathy ^a   Winkelman, Steve ^a   Van Vorst, Rebecca ^b   Zittleman, Linda ^c   Westfall, John M ^c  

^a High Plains Research Network Community Advisory Council ^*  (United States)

^b Deyta Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Colon cancer; Health campaigns; Health knowledge; Participatory research; Practice; Practice based research; Public health

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDES; COLON CANCER; COLON TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH; HEALTH CAMPAIGNS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRACTICE; PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH; PRECANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDES; COLON CANCER; HEALTH CAMPAIGNS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRACTICE; PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORADO; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84887542632     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1586     Document Type: Article

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