Improving cancer control through a community-based cancer awareness initiative

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-123

  Smith, Samuel G ^a   Rendell, Helen ^b   George, Helen ^b   Power, Emily ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer awareness; Community interventions; Health behaviours; Inequalities; Mobile information units

Indexed keywords

CANCER AWARENESS; COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS; HEALTH BEHAVIOURS; INEQUALITIES; MOBILE INFORMATION UNITS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; BODY MASS INDEX; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893864584     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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