A six-year descriptive analysis of hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions among people born in refugee-source countries

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Correa Velez, Ignacio ^a   Ansari, Zahid ^b   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b   Brown, Kaye ^b   Gifford, Sandra M ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT CARE; REFUGEE;

EID: 36448989338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-5-9     Document Type: Article

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