Peer-Support Preferences and Readiness-to-Change Behaviour for Chronic Disease Prevention in an Urban Indigenous Population

Australian Social Work

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-67

  Adams, Karen ^a   Paasse, Gail ^a   Clinch, Darren ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Research; Indigenous Social Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951968486     PISSN: 0312407X     EISSN: 14470748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0312407X.2010.541269     Document Type: Article

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