A case study of physical and social barriers to hygiene and child growth in remote Australian Aboriginal communities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  McDonald, Elizabeth ^a   Bailie, Ross ^a   Grace, Jocelyn ^b   Brewster, David ^c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHILD GROWTH; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFECTION; INTERVIEW; PERSONAL HYGIENE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; ABORIGINE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HYGIENE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWDING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70350465176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-346     Document Type: Article

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