Fear as a Barrier to Asymptomatic Colonoscopy Screening in an Urban Minority Population with Health Insurance

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 818-824

  Basch, Corey H ^a   Basch, Charles E ^b   Zybert, Patricia ^b   Wolf, Randi L ^b  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Colorectal cancer screening; Minority

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONOSCOPY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

COLONOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84977462881     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: 15733610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-016-0159-9     Document Type: Article

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