Expanding the meaning of ‘being a peer leader’: qualitative findings from a Canadian community-based cervical and breast cancer screening programme

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 630-640

  Ahmad, Farah ^a,b   Ferrari, Manuela ^a   Moravac, Catherine ^c   Lofters, Aisha ^b,c   Dunn, Sheila ^c,d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cervical cancer; health promotion; lay worker; peer worker; screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST TUMOR; COMMUNITY CARE; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85011920524     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12352     Document Type: Article

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