Conventionally accepted risk factors do not explain higher rates of middle ear disease in remote Indigenous children: an ecological study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 491-492

  Spurling, Geoffrey K P ^a   Askew, Deborah A ^a   Schluter, Philip J ^b   Simpson, Fiona ^c   Hayman, Noel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; NEWBORN; OTOSCOPY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR DISEASES; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OTOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84866973934     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: 17536405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2012.00921.x     Document Type: Letter

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