Examining disparities in cancer control : System performance report

Grounded in and informed by the experiences of those most affected by cancer, the organization plays a unique role, working with partners to support multi-jurisdictional uptake of the knowledge emerging from cancer research and best practices in order to optimize cancer control planning and drive improvements in quality of practice across the country. [...] Having objective measures of the performance full cancer continuum from prevention and of the cancer control systems across Canada treatment through to survivorship and end-of-life helps identify best practices and opportunities care, the Partnership supports the collective. [...] These indicators are of factors, including cultural and language meant to create a wider understanding of the barriers, lack of a family physician and limited extent of disparities in Canadian cancer care knowledge of the workings of the Canadian systems, shed light on opportunities for health-care system, but also includes the improvements and inform quality initiatives at health-care system’s ab [...] EXAMINING DISPARITIES IN CANCER CONTROL 14 A System Performance Special Focus Report About This Report Beyond this healthy immigrant effect, there are awareness of the availability and benefit of legitimate questions about the ability of newer cancer screening programs and limited ability immigrants to understand and successfully to understand prognosis and evaluate different navigate the various [...] In this report (and consistent with previous It is the standardized ratio of total household research), immigrant status is examined as income to the low-income cut-off corresponding those respondents who indicated they came to to the number of persons in the household and live in Canada fewer than 10 years ago (referred the size of the community.12 The distribution of to as “recent immigrants” in