Aboriginal health: A sick minority skews statistics

The Australian journal of rural health

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 111-115

  Dugdale, Alan ^a   Watlemaro, Imogen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Cherbourg Aboriginal Community ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MORBIDITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUEENSLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0035378631     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1584.2001.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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