Adherence to management guidelines for growth faltering and anaemia in remote dwelling Australian Aboriginal infants and barriers to health service delivery Marie Pierre Gagnon

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bar Zeev, Sarah J ^a   Kruske, Sue G ^b   Barclay, Lesley M ^c   Bar Zeev, Naor ^d,f   Kildea, Sue V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Adherence; Anaemia; Australia; Barriers; Growth faltering; Infant; Management guidelines; Primary health care; Quality of care; Remote

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MEDICAL AUDIT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION;

ANEMIA; AUSTRALIA; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MEDICAL AUDIT; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84879832432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-250     Document Type: Article

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