Can we count? Enumerating births in two remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-284

  Steenkamp, Malinda ^a   Johnstone, Kim ^b   Bar Zeev, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal mobility; Accuracy; Livebirth counts; Remote community

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84862587756     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2012.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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