Commentary: Inequalities in cancer screening programmes

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 766-768

  Sarfati, Diana ^a   Shaw, Caroline ^a   Simmonds, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 77955759000     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq039     Document Type: Note

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