Awareness is poor, people struggle to get a diagnosisand many are left to cope with "meltdowns" because of the lack of preventative support or community-based intervention.
This paper demonstrates that major-incident awareness is poor within NHS Trusts in Wales.
This reflects the parental awareness is poor with regards to the diagnosis, early surgical intervention and the need for earlier visual rehabilitation.
There are certain groups of adolescents whose cancer awareness is poor and thus messages about cancer need to be targeted and tailored to particular groups of adolescents to prevent the development of health inequalities in adulthood.
Existing research also suggests that cancer awareness is poorer among those who are less well educated and those with a lower socioeconomic status (Brunswick et al, 2001; Wardle et al, 2001).
Recent surveys have highlighted that the public have low awareness about many cancer warning signs, cancer-screening programmes, and cancer risk factors and that awareness is poorer in lower socio-economic groups (Adlard and Hume, 2003; McCaffery et al, 2003; Redeker et al, 2009; Robb et al, 2009; Waller et al, 2009; Keeney et al, 2011).
These surveys also suggest that cancer symptom awareness is poorer among those who are less well educated, those with lower socio-economic status and those from black and minority ethnic groups (Wardle et al, 2001; Grunfeld et al, 2002; Robb et al, 2009).
Their awareness of COPD was poor, their treatment during both the stable and acute exacerbation stages did not meet standards, and the economic burdens were large.
Consistent with earlier research (Linsell et al, 2008), breast knowledge and awareness was relatively poor within this study.
