Enhancing the accessibility of public mental health services in Queensland to meet the needs of deaf people from an Indigenous Australian or culturally and linguistically diverse background

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Denman, Lara ^a  

^a Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deafness; Indigenous; Mental health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEAFNESS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 36348970041     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10398560701701262     Document Type: Article

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