Australia's national bowel cancer screening program: Does it work for Indigenous Australians?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Christou, Aliki ^a   Katzenellenbogen, Judith M ^a   Thompson, Sandra C ^a,b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77955378394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-373     Document Type: Article

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