Examining Breast Cancer Screening Barriers Among Central American and Mexican Immigrant Women: Fatalistic Beliefs or Structural Factors?

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 593-607

  De Jesus, Maria ^a   Miller, Eva B ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOLIVIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; BOLIVIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84929028099     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2014.973496     Document Type: Article

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