Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 155-166 , May 2008

Women's Preventive Screening in Rural Health Clinics

Portions of the content of this paper were presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, October 17, 2005.

  • Joellen Beckett Edwards, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Appalachian Center for Translational Research and Professor, Family/Community Nursing, East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, Johnson City, Tennessee
    • Joellen Beckett Edwards, PhD, RN, is the Principal Investigator, Appalachian Center for Translational Research and Professor, Family/Community Nursing, East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, Johnson City, Tennessee. Her research interests include rural women's health, rural health policy, and health care delivery system improvement.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Joellen B. Edwards, PhD, RN, East Tennessee State University, College of Nursing, Center for Nursing Research, Johnson City, TN 27614.
    • ,
  • Fred Tudiver, MD, FCFP

      Affiliations

    • James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
    • Fred Tudiver, MD, FCFP, is Professor of Family Medicine, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, where he is the Director for Primary Care Research. His research interests include physician behavior, evidence-based practice, and cancer screening behavior.

Received 8 August 2007 ,Accepted 22 January 2008.

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 Supported by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy, Grant # 1 R04RH01306-01.

PII: S1049-3867(08)00011-X

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2008.01.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 155-166 , May 2008

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