title: Global Perspectives on Cancer Health Disparities: Impact, Utility, and Implications for Cancer Nursing.
abstract: This paper examines cancer health disparities and contributing factors at national, regional, and international levels. The authors all live in different countries and regions with different health-care systems and practices. Despite the shared cancer nursing perspective, each country or global region approaches cancer disparities differently. With globalization the world is becoming smaller, and in turn becoming interconnected and interdependent. This article focuses on cancer health disparities and global cancer nursing, exemplifying these concepts about the impact and implications of person-centered care.
authors.affiliation: Asian Oncology Nursing Society, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; The Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Winnie K W
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: So
authors.affiliation: Cancer Nurses Society of Australia, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Raymond Javan
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Truant
authors.affiliation: European Oncology Nursing Society
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Trevatt
authors.affiliation: International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Stella Aguinaga
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bialous
authors.affiliation: Oncology Nursing Society, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; College of Nursing, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barton-Burke
keywords: Cancer health disparities; cancer nursing; impact; implications; utility