The health status of quota refugees screened by New Zealand's Auckland Public Health Service between 1995 and 2000

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1224, 2005, Pages

  Mcleod, Alison ^a,b   Reeve, Martin ^a,b  

^a AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^b Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUGEE; SCREENING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; REFUGEES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 27744447971     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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