Reduction in disparity for pneumonia hospitalisations between Australian indigenous and non-Indigenous children

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 489-494

  Moore, Hannah C ^a   Lehmann, Deborah ^a   de Klerk, Nicholas ^a   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Richmond, Peter C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PNEUMONIA; POLYSACCHARIDE; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VACCINATION;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AUSTRALIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PNEUMONIA;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84862759278     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.122762     Document Type: Article

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