Survival disparities in Indigenous and non-Indigenous New Zealanders with colon cancer: The role of patient comorbidity, treatment and health service factors

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-123

  Hill, Sarah ^a,b,c   Sarfati, Diana ^b   Blakely, Tony ^b   Robson, Bridget ^b   Purdie, Gordon ^b   Chen, Jarvis ^c   Dennett, Elizabeth ^b   Cormack, Donna ^b   Cunningham, Ruth ^b   Dew, Kevin ^b,d   McCreanor, Tim ^e   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MORBIDITY; RACIAL DISPARITY; SURVIVAL;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; COLON TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; NEW ZEALAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POPULATION GROUPS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 75249101063     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.083816     Document Type: Article

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