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High rates of vaccination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: an underappreciated success?
Author(s) -
Beard Frank H,
Clark Katrina K
Publication year - 2019
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/mja2.50234
Subject(s) - indigenous , medicine , cervical screening , vaccination , cervical cancer , shame , human papillomavirus , demography , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , political science , cancer , sociology , immunology , ecology , physics , optics , law , biology
The health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indig­ enous) Australians should be of concern to all Australians. Many read­ ers of the Journal will be aware that cervical cancer incidence is twice and mortality four times as high among Indigenous women as among non­ Indigenous women.1 This grossly ineq­ uitable situation is largely attributable to the lower participation of Indigenous women in cervical screening programs because of a variety of socio­ cultural and health system­ related barriers, including shame, cultural safety, and problems of access.1,2

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