Browsing The Daffodil Centre by subject "aboriginal"
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Cancer mortality in Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia, 1994-2002
Published 2007OBJECTIVE: To describe, for the first time, mortality from cancer for Aboriginal residents of New South Wales (NSW). METHODS: These are the results of a descriptive study of cancer deaths from the NSW Central Cancer Registry ...Article -
Health literacy in relation to cancer: addressing the silence about and absence of cancer discussion among Aboriginal people, communities and health services
Published 2013Cancer outcomes for Aboriginal Australians are poorer when compared with cancer outcomes for non-Aboriginal Australians despite overall improvements in cancer outcomes. One concept used to examine inequities in health ...Article -
'I can't do this, it's too much': building social inclusion in cancer diagnosis and treatment experiences of Aboriginal people, their carers and health workers
Published 2014OBJECTIVES: Social inclusion theory has been used to understand how people at the margins of society engage with service provision. The aim of this paper was to explore the cancer care experiences of Aboriginal people in ...Article -
Increasing rates of surgical treatment and preventing comorbidities may increase breast cancer survival for Aboriginal women
Published 2014BACKGROUND: Lower breast cancer survival has been reported for Australian Aboriginal women compared to non-Aboriginal women, however the reasons for this disparity have not been fully explored. We compared the surgical ...Article -
One size fits all? The discursive framing of cultural difference in health professional accounts of providing cancer care to Aboriginal people
Published 2013OBJECTIVES: Cancer is the second biggest killer of Aboriginal Australians. For some cancers, the mortality rate is more than three times higher in Aboriginal people than for non-Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal Patterns ...Article