The effect of two church-based interventions on breast cancer screening rates among medicaid-insured Latinas

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Welsh, Adrienne L ^a   Sauaia, Angela ^a   Jacobellis, Jillian ^b   Min, Sung Joon ^a   Byers, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado Health Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84978389017     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
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