The 'Ohana Day project: A community approach to increasing cancer screening

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gellert, Kapuaola ^a   Braun, Kathryn L ^b   Morris, Robert ^c   Starkey, Valerie ^d  

^a Papa Ola Lokahi   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Community Health Worker ^*  (United States)

^d Na Puuwai Native Hawaiian Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT EDUCATION; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84978431848     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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