Disparities in infectious disease hospitalizations for American Indian/Alaska native people

Public Health Reports

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 508-521

  Holman, Robert C ^a   Folkema, Arianne M ^a   Singleton, Rosalyn J ^a,b   Redd, John T ^c   Christensen, Krista Y ^a   Steiner, Claudia A ^d   Schonberger, Lawrence B ^a   Hennessy, Thomas W ^a   Cheek, James E ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^c INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

^d AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION; KIDNEY INFECTION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INUITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051576469     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491112600407     Document Type: Article

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