Excess Indigenous mortality: Are Indigenous Australians more severely disadvantaged than other Indigenous populations?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 580-589

  Hill, Kenneth ^a   Barker, Bridget ^b   Vos, Theo ^b  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34547839775     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym011     Document Type: Article

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