Women's cultural perceptions and attitudes towards breast cancer: Northern Ghana

Health Promotion International

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 647-657

  Asobayire, Alice ^a   Barley, Ruth ^b  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast cancer awareness; gender inequality; health education; socio cultural factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; SEXISM;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GHANA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; SEXISM;

EID: 84940647009     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dat087     Document Type: Article

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