Effect of a Media-Led Education Campaign on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening among Vietnamese-American Women
Preventive MedicinePublished 1 April 1999
Christopher N. H. Jenkins, Stephen J. McPhee, Joyce Adair Bird, G Q Pham, Bang H. Nguyen, Thoa Nguyen
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A media-led education campaign to promote recognition, intention, receipt, and currency of routine checkups, clinical breast examinations, mammograms, and Pap tests among Vietnamese-American women in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties in northern California succeeded in increasing recognition of and intention to undertake screening tests more than receipt of or currency with the tests.
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A media-led education intervention succeeded in increasing recognition of and intention to undertake screening tests more than receipt of or currency with the tests.
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