The Young Person Check: Screening for sexually transmitted infections and chronic disease risk in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 316-321

  Fagan, Patricia ^a   Cannon, Fiona ^b   Crouch, Alan ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Queensland Department of Health   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; coverage; population screening; sexually transmissible infection; Torres Strait Islander

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COVERAGE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROCEDURES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ABORIGINAL; COVERAGE; POPULATION SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE INFECTION; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881511535     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12078     Document Type: Article

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