Racial and ethnic disparities in cancer screening the importance of foreign birth as a barrier to care
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 18 (12) , 1028-1035
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.20807.x
Abstract
CONTEXT: Racial/ethnic groups comprised largely of foreign-born individuals have lower rates of cancer screening than white Americans. Little is known abouKeywords
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