Decreasing rates of natural deaths in a remote Australian Aboriginal community, 1996-2010

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 365-370

  Wang, Zaimin ^a   Hoy, Wendy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal people; cohort study; ICD 10; mortality; SMR

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINAL PEOPLE; ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICD-10; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SMR; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ABORIGINAL PEOPLE; COHORT STUDY; ICD-10; MORTALITY; SMR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881527271     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12085     Document Type: Article

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