Mortality due to acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in the Northern Territory: A preventable cause of death in Aboriginal people

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-163

  Carapetis, Jonathan R ^a   Currie, Bart J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0032774947     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1999.tb01227.x     Document Type: Article

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