Environments and Cardiometabolic Diseases in Aboriginal Populations

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 306-315

  Daniel, Mark ^a,b   Lekkas, Peter ^a   Cargo, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal, Indigenous peoples; Biopsychosocial pathways; Cardiovascular, metabolic disease; Social, built, physical environments

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION GROUPS; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77953129018     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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