Exploring cross-sectional associations between common childhood illness, housing and social conditions in remote Australian Aboriginal communities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bailie, Ross ^a   Stevens, Matthew ^a   McDonald, Elizabeth ^a   Brewster, David ^b   Guthridge, Steve ^c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SKIN DISEASES; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77950561716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-147     Document Type: Article

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