Factors associated with breast and cervical cancer screening behavior among African immigrant women in Minnesota

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 450-456

  Harcourt, Nonyelum ^a   Ghebre, Rahel G ^b   Whembolua, Guy Lucien ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b   Osman, S Warfa ^c   Okuyemi, Kolawole S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c New American Community Services   (United States)

Author keywords

African; Breast; Cancer; Cervical; Immigrant; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MINNESOTA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84904737720     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-012-9766-4     Document Type: Article

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