A tailored intervention to promote breast cancer screening among South Asian immigrant women

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 575-586

  Ahmad, Farah ^a   Cameron, Jill I ^a   Stewart, Donna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health belief model; Health promotion; Intervention; South Asian immigrants; Stages of change

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; CANCER; HEALTH EDUCATION; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644281864     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.018     Document Type: Article

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