A mobile unit: an effective service for cervical cancer screening among rural Thai women
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A mobile unit: an effective service for cervical cancer screening among rural Thai women.
BACKGROUND We carried out a systematic screening programme using a mobile unit with the purpose of increasing use of Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening among rural Thai women. The mobile unit campaign was carried out initially between January and February 1993 and then in 1996 in all the 54 rural villages in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, northern Thailand. METHODS To evaluate the effect of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.1.35