Indigenous inequalities in cancer: What role for health care?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 36-41

  Hill, Sarah ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^b   Robson, Bridget ^b   Blakely, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cancer survival; Cancer treatment; Ethnic inequality; Indigenous; M ori

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84873035271     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ans.12041     Document Type: Article

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