One size fits all? The discursive framing of cultural difference in health professional accounts of providing cancer care to Aboriginal people

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 433-447

  Newman, Christy E ^a   Gray, Rebecca ^a   Brener, Loren ^a   Jackson, L Clair ^a   Johnson, Priscilla ^a   Saunders, Veronica ^a   Harris, Magdalena ^a   Butow, Phyllis ^b   Treloar, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; cancer care; cultural difference; delivery of health services; discursive framing; indigenous

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CULTURAL CONFLICT; CULTURAL IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MORTALITY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; TORRES STRAIT;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84881373247     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2012.754408     Document Type: Article

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