"Only your blood can tell the story" - A qualitative research study using semi-structured interviews to explore the hepatitis B related knowledge, perceptions and experiences of remote dwelling Indigenous Australians and their health care providers in northern Australia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Davies, Jane ^a   Bukulatjpi, Sarah ^b   Sharma, Suresh ^c   Davis, Joshua ^a   Johnston, Vanessa ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation   (Australia)

^c ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culture; Health literacy; Hepatitis B; Indigenous population; Language; Portable electronic applications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84964313605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1233     Document Type: Article

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