Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in more remote areas worse off?
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The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 16 March 2009 190 6 307311 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2009 www.mja.com.au Research disparity have contributed to pessimism about the potential to reduce mortality among Indigenous people. Yet changes in Indigenous mortality might be expected because of ch nges in background risk factors, such as falling infection rates, increasing birthweights and improvements in used with evalu Austr Main disea chan
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Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998-2003: are people living in remote areas worse off?
OBJECTIVE To quantify Indigenous mortality in the Northern Territory by remoteness of residence. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data were used to compare rates of death from chronic disease in the NT Indigenous population with rates in the general Australian population over the period 1998-2003. Rates were evaluated by categories of remoteness based...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009