The potential for measuring ethnicity and health in a multicultural milieu-the case of type 2 diabetes in Australia

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 424-439

  Abouzeid, Marian ^a,b   Bhopal, Raj S ^c   Dunbar, James A ^a   Janus, Edward D ^a,d  

^a Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

diabetes; ethnicity; measurement; methodology

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DATA; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; DIABETES; ETHNICITY; GLOBALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; MIGRATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

EID: 84901024781     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2013.828828     Document Type: Article

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