Equity of colorectal cancer screening: Cross-sectional analysis of national bowel cancer screening program data for South Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-65

  Ward, Paul R ^a   Javanparast, Sara ^a   Matt, Michelle Ah ^a   Martini, Angelita ^a   Tsourtos, George ^a   Cole, Stephen ^b   Gill, Tiffany ^c   Aylward, Paul ^d   Baratiny, Genevieve ^e   Jiwa, Moyez ^f   Misan, Gary ^e   Wilson, Carlene ^a   Young, Graeme ^g  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Population Research and Outcome Studies   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Colorectal cancer; Cross sectional analysis; Inequality; Screening; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79953817496     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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