Factors Influencing Breast Cancer Screening in Low-Income African Americans in Tennessee

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 943-950

  Patel, Kushal ^a   Kanu, Mohamed ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^b   Bond, Brea ^a   Brown, Elizabeth ^a   Williams, Elizabeth ^a   Theriot, Rosemary ^a   Bailey, Stephanie ^a   Sanderson, Maureen ^b   Hargreaves, Margaret ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Breast cancer screening; Health disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84918768949     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-014-9834-x     Document Type: Article

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