Rheumatic fever and social justice

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 557-558

  Brown, Alex ^a   McDonald, Malcolm I ^b   Calma, Tom ^c  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 34250625720     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01052.x     Document Type: Editorial

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