Fact or fiction? A critique of the national aboriginal and torres strait islander social survey 2002

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-287

  Chikritzhs, Tanya ^a   Brady, Maggie ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; CAUSALITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; HARM REDUCTION; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33744947044     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230600644715     Document Type: Article

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