Self-rated health status in an urban indigenous primary care setting: Implications for clinicians and public health policy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 598-601

  Spurling, Geoffrey ^a   Hayman, Noel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health status; Indigenous health service; Oceanic ancestry group; Primary healthcare

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952276379     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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