Immunisation: Reducing health inequality for Indigenous Australians

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 207-208

  McIntyre, Peter B ^a   Menzies, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

CROWDING; DIPHTHERIA; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MEASLES; MORTALITY; MUMPS; NATIVE SPECIES; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RUBELLA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 14844341775     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06667.x     Document Type: Editorial

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