Improving aboriginal health how can health care professionals contribute?;Améliorer la santé des autochtones: Quelle contribution les professionnels de la santé peuvent-ils apporter?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 334-339

  Macaulay, Ann C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; CANADA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MANPOWER; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 66749172957     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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