A multilevel analysis on the relationship between neighbourhood poverty and public hospital utilization: Is the high Indigenous morbidity avoidable?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhao, Yuejen ^a   You, Jiqiong ^a   Guthridge, Steven L ^a   Lee, Andy H ^b  

^a NORTHERN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY AREAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 80053344967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-737     Document Type: Article

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