Breast Cancer-Screening Behavior among Rural California American Indian Women

Affiliations

¹ Felicia Schanche Hodge holds a joint position as professor in the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the chair of the American Indian Studies program and the director of the Center for American Indian/Indigenous Research and Education (CAIIRE) at UCLA. Felicia Hodge is a member of the Wailaki tribe from Northern California.

Felicia Schanche Hodge. Am Indian Cult Res J. 2009.

. 2009 Sep 1;33(3):35-42.

doi: 10.17953/aicr.33.3.bjw34l55v72q44n1.

¹ Felicia Schanche Hodge holds a joint position as professor in the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also the chair of the American Indian Studies program and the director of the Center for American Indian/Indigenous Research and Education (CAIIRE) at UCLA. Felicia Hodge is a member of the Wailaki tribe from Northern California.

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