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Ruth Cunningham
Researcher at University of Otago
Publications - 47
Citations - 751
Ruth Cunningham is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 37 publications receiving 564 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruth Cunningham include Wellington Management Company.
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Survival Disparities in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous New Zealanders with Colon Cancer: The Role of Patient Comorbidity, Treatment and Health Service Factors
Sarah Hill,Diana Sarfati,Tony Blakely,Bridget Robson,Gordon Purdie,Jarvis T. Chen,Elizabeth Dennett,Donna Cormack,Ruth Cunningham,Kevin Dew,Kevin Dew,Tim McCreanor,Ichiro Kawachi +12 more
TL;DR: Higher patient comorbidity and poorer access and quality of cancer care are both important explanations for worse survival in Maori compared with non-Maori New Zealanders with colon cancer.
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Cancer survival in the context of mental illness: a national cohort study.
TL;DR: The high burden of physical disease and delayed cancer diagnosis in those with psychotic disorders contributes to worse cancer survival in New Zealand psychiatric service users.
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Cervical and breast cancer screening uptake among women with serious mental illness: a data linkage study
Charlotte Woodhead,Ruth Cunningham,Mark Ashworth,Elizabeth Barley,Robert Stewart,Max Henderson +5 more
TL;DR: Women with SMI are less likely to receive breast and cervical cancer screening than comparable women without SMI, and efforts at increasing screening uptake should be targeted at women with other markers of illness severity or risk, beyond SMI status alone.
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Premature mortality in adults using New Zealand psychiatric services
TL;DR: It is confirmed that those using mental health services in New Zealand are dying prematurely from both natural and external causes, and evidence which supports calls for coordinated action on this issue is provided.
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Social inequalities or inequities in cancer incidence? Repeated census-cancer cohort studies, New Zealand 1981–1986 to 2001–2004
TL;DR: Tobacco explains many of the social group trends and differences and constitutes an inequity in New Zealand; cervical cancer trends are plausibly explained by screening and sexual practices; and ethnic differences in bladder, brain, endometrial and kidney cancer cannot be fully explained.