Australia's aboriginal population and mental health

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-7

  Parker, Robert ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Aboriginal; Cultural safety; Mental illness; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SUICIDE; ADULT; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; SUICIDE;

EID: 74949127672     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c7e7bc     Document Type: Review

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