Hygiene improvement: Essential to improving child health in remote Aboriginal communities

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 491-496

  McDonald, Elizabeth ^a   Bailie, Ross ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; child health; community; hygiene; Indigenous; infectious disease

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ABORIGINE; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SANITATION;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYGIENE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77957131140     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01846.x     Document Type: Review

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