Christopher N. H. Jenkins

TL;DR: The results indicate that the cancer screening reminders strategy was the most effective in promoting the performance of routine cancer screening tests.

TL;DR: The data do not support the hypothesis that traditional health beliefs and practices act as barriers to access to Western medical care or to utilization of preventive services, and the cultural attributes of individuals did not explain either lack of health care access or underutilization of preventive health care services.

TL;DR: Trained Vietnamese lay health workers significantly increased Vietnamese women's recognition, receipt, and maintenance of breast and cervical cancer screening tests.

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese women in San Francisco and Sacramento, California, and identified several significant barriers to recognition, receipt, and currency of screening tests.