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To achieve (E)quality health care for childhood cancer survivors
Author(s) -
Zebrack Brad J.,
Chesler Mark A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.21572
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , survivorship curve , socioeconomic status , childhood cancer , affect (linguistics) , intervention (counseling) , cancer , health equity , quality of life (healthcare) , sociocultural evolution , health care , gerontology , public health , psychiatry , nursing , environmental health , psychology , population , communication , sociology , anthropology , economics , economic growth
An expressed goal of psychosocial oncology research and intervention is to facilitate patients' and family members' adjustment to both the short‐term and long‐term consequences of treatment, recovery, and survivorship. Unfortunately, despite the growing attention to inequalities in health care, little is known regarding the ways in which socioeconomic, racial, and sociocultural status may affect the long‐term adjustment and functioning of ill children and their family members.