A comprehensive assessment of the difficulty level and cultural sensitivity of online cancer prevention resources for older minority men

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Friedman, Daniela B ^a   Kao, Elaine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPREHENSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MINORITY GROUPS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROBABILITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978933147     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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