Scientific certainty in a time of uncertainty: Predicting vulnerability of Canada's first nations to pandemic H1N1/09

International Indigenous Policy Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Spence, Nicholas ^a   White, Jerry P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access to care; Health; Indigenous population; Pandemic H1N1 09 virus; Swine origin influenza

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988708595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19165781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18584/iipj.2010.1.1.1     Document Type: Article

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