Health assimilation patterns amongst Australian Immigrants

Economic Record

Volumn 83, Issue 260, 2007, Pages 16-30

  Biddle, Nicholas ^a   Kennedy, Steven ^a   Mcdonald, James Ted ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33846936506     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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