Hospitals caring for rural Aboriginal patients: Holding response and denial

Australian Health Review

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 546-551

  Dwyer, Judith ^a   Willis, Eileen ^a   Kelly, Janet ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84908891323     PISSN: 01565788     EISSN: 14498944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AH14060     Document Type: Article

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