Recent patterns in chronic disease mortality in remote living Indigenous Australians

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Andreasyan, K ^a   Hoy, We ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77955547820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-483     Document Type: Article

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