Maryland's special populations cancer network: Cancer health disparities reduction model

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-206

  Baquet, Claudia R ^a   Mack, Kelly M ^b   Bramble, Joy ^c   Deshields, Mary ^d   Datcher, Delores ^e   Savoy, Mervin ^f   Hummel, Kery ^g   Mishra, Shiraz I ^a   Brooks, Sandra E ^b   Boykin Brown, Stephanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE   (United States)

^c Times Community Services Foundation   (United States)

^d Regional Cancer Center   (United States)

^e C Datcher and Associates   (United States)

^f Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Subtribes   (United States)

^g Western Maryland Area Health Education Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer health disparities; Community clinical trials; Ethnicity; Medically underserved; Minority groups; Race; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MARYLAND; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 21644437159     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2005.0022     Document Type: Review

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