Indigenous inequities in the presentation and management of stomach cancer in New Zealand: a country with universal health care coverage

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 571-579

  Signal, Virginia ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a   Cunningham, Ruth ^a   Gurney, Jason ^a   Koea, Jonathon ^b   Ellison Loschmann, Lis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cancer; Health care quality; Indigenous; Inequity; Stomach; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE MANAGEMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84938971614     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-014-0410-y     Document Type: Article

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