Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: An insight into Aboriginal health disadvantage and remote Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 184, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 506-

  Maguire, Graeme P ^a   Nelson, Carmel ^b  

^a Western Australia Country Health Service Kimberley   (Australia)

^b Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; PENICILLIN G;

ABORIGINE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EAR INFECTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33646682431     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00344.x     Document Type: Editorial

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