Health and human security in West Papua

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 189, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 641-643

  Rees, Susan J ^a   van de Pas, Remco ^b   Silove, Derrick ^a   Kareth, Moses ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b République Démocratique du Congo   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HOMICIDE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INDONESIA; INFANT MORTALITY; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PNEUMONIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POVERTY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WELLBEING;

EID: 58149354682     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb02226.x     Document Type: Article

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