Health services utilisation disparities between English speaking and non-English speaking background Australian infants

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ou, Lixin ^a   Chen, Jack ^a   Hillman, Ken ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; ODDS RATIO; OFFICE VISITS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950644028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-182     Document Type: Article

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