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Cancer care for Indigenous Australians
Author(s) -
Boffa John D
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01789.x
Subject(s) - officer , indigenous , citation , alice (programming language) , library science , sociology , history , political science , law , art history , computer science , ecology , biology
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 19 May 2008 188 10 560-561 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2008 www.mja.com.au The Great Divide — Editorial people have a lower cancer survival rate and are muc be offered diagnostic and therapeutic procedures,2-6 by Coory et al is the first to show a clear treatment b Why are Aboriginal people less likely than other receive treatment for lung cancer? Drawing on my Aboriginal health over the past 20 years, I think th likely explanations for this finding, most of which Co Low socioeconomic status and assumptions about Indigenous people may be jeopardising their access to care