Tuberculosis and syndemics: Implications for Pacific health in New Zealand

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1674-1680

  Littleton, Judith ^a   Park, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diabetes; New Zealand; Pacific; Policy; Populations; Review; Social determinants; Syndemics; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VITAMIN D;

DIABETES; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; CROWDING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 71549140056     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.042     Document Type: Article

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