Measuring ethnicity in New Zealand: Developing tools for health outcomes analysis

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 299-320

  Callister, Paul ^a   Didham, Robert ^b   Potter, Deborah ^b   Blakely, Tony ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Disparities; Ethnicity; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CENSUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH POLICY; MICROCOSM; MIGRATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL VALUE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROCOSM; MIGRATION; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESEARCH;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34548133123     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557850701300699     Document Type: Article

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