Health indicators and risks among people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne, 1995-1996

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 464-470

  Kermode, Michelle ^a   Crofts, Nick ^b,e   Miller, Peter ^b   Speed, Bryan ^b,c   Streeton, Jonathan ^d  

^a Epidemiol and Social Research Unit   (Australia)

^b Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research   (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

^e MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREATHING DISORDER; BRONCHITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULIN TEST; WHEEZING;

EID: 0031854144     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01415.x     Document Type: Article

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