Do socially deprived urban areas have lesser supplies of cancer care services?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 3250-3257

  Lamont, Elizabeth B ^a,b   He, Yulei ^b   Subramanian, S V ^c   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POVERTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AFTERCARE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84866561409     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.40.4228     Document Type: Article

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