Equity of travel required to access first definitive surgery for liver or stomach cancer in New Zealand.

ABSTRACT: In New Zealand, there are known disparities between the Indigenous Māori and the majority non-Indigenous European populations in access to cancer treatment, with resulting disparities in cancer survival. There is international evidence of ethnic disparities in the distance travelled to access cancer treatment; and as such, the aim of this paper was to examine the distance and time travelled to access surgical care between Māori and European liver and stomach cancer patients. We used national-level data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to describe the distance travelled by patients to receive their first primary surgery for liver or stomach cancer, as well as the estimated time to travel this distance by road, and the surgical volume of hospitals performing these procedures

SUBMITTER: Gurney J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9371338 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature