The impact of a postgraduate diabetes course on the perceptions Aboriginal health workers and supervisors in South Australia

Contemporary Nurse

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 82-93

  King, Meri ^a   Munt, Rebecca ^a   Eastwood, Angela ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Aboriginal health workers; Diabetes health care; Tertiary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547591787     PISSN: 10376178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/conu.2007.25.1-2.82     Document Type: Article

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