Barriers to participation of Aboriginal people in cancer care: Communication in the hospital setting

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 574-579

  Shahid, Shaouli ^a   Finn, Lizzie D ^a   Thompson, Sandra C ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LAND BIOME; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEOPLASM; NOMENCLATURE; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACISM; SOCIAL CLASS; TRUST; ABORIGINE; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 68149092377     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02569.x     Document Type: Article

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