Health and healthcare equity within the Canadian cancer care sector: a rapid scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite a publicly-funded healthcare system, alarming cancer-related health and healthcare inequities persist in Canada. However, it remains unclear how equity is being understood and taken up within the Canadian cancer context. Our objective was to identify how health and healthcare equity are being discussed as goals or aims within the cancer care sector in Canada.

Methods

A rapid scoping review was conducted; five biomedical databases, 30 multidisciplinary websites, and Google were searched. We included English-language documents published between 2008 and 2021 that discussed health or healthcare equity in the Canadian cancer context.

Results

Of 3860 identified documents, 83 were included for full-text analysis. The prevalence of published and grey equit

SUBMITTER: Lambert LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883825 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature