They really want to go back home, they hate it here: The importance of place in Canadian health professionals' views on the barriers facing Aboriginal patients accessing kidney transplants

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 390-393

  Anderson, Kate ^a   Yeates, Karen ^b   Cunningham, Joan ^a,c   Devitt, Jeannie ^d   Cass, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Health inequalities; Indigenous health; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH WORKER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ACCESS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOME; KIDNEY GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 54549098210     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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