Hospital utilisation among people born in refugee-source countries: An analysis of hospital admissions, Victoria, 1998-2004

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 577-580

  Correa Velez, Ignacio ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b   Brown, Kaye ^b   Gifford, Sandra M ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Victorian Department of Human Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRAQ; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYANMAR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOSIS; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; SUDAN; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREND STUDY;

EID: 34250613540     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01058.x     Document Type: Article

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