Travel time and distance to health care only partially account for the ethnic inequalities in cervical cancer stage at diagnosis and mortality in New Zealand

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 335-342

  Brewer, Naomi ^a   Pearce, Neil ^a,b   Day, Peter ^c   Borman, Barry ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Geographical variation; Inequalities; New Zealand; Uterine cervical neoplasms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864566039     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2012.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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