Pursuing equity in cancer care: implementation, challenges and preliminary findings of a public cancer referral center in rural Rwanda

BACKGROUND: Cancer services are inaccessible in many low-income countries, and few published examples describe oncology programs within the public sector. In 2011, the Rwanda Ministry of Health (RMOH) established Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) to expand cancer services nationally. In hop...

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Autores principales: Tapela, Neo M., Mpunga, Tharcisse, Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany, Moore, Molly, Mpanumusingo, Egide, Xu, Mary Jue, Nzayisenga, Ignace, Hategekimana, Vedaste, Umuhizi, Denis Gilbert, Pace, Lydia E., Bigirimana, Jean Bosco, Wang, JingJing, Driscoll, Caitlin, Uwizeye, Frank R., Drobac, Peter C., Ngoga, Gedeon, Shyirambere, Cyprien, Muhayimana, Clemence, Lehmann, Leslie, Shulman, Lawrence N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-016-2256-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26992690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-016-2256-7

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