Evaluating the impact of repeated community-wide health surveys on cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Busselton population

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 267-272

  Knuiman, Matthew W ^a   Clarkson, Johanna P ^a   Bulsara, Max ^a   Bartholomew, Helen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 3042842356     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2004.tb00706.x     Document Type: Article

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