Towards understanding disparities in cancer outcomes for Aboriginal Australians: exploring Aboriginal perceptions and experiences of cancer in Western Australia

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Towards understanding disparities in cancer outcomes for Aboriginal Australians: exploring Aboriginal perceptions and experiences of cancer in Western Australia

Cancer has become one of the major chronic diseases among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, and was declared a health priority in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy in 2001. Since then efforts have been instigated to improve the epidemiologica...

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Main Author:	Shahid, Shaouli
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2010
Subjects:	Aboriginal Australian Indigenous Women’s Cancer Support Group (IWCSG) cancer treatment cancer awareness Western Australia cancer
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/467

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