Gambling, housing conditions, community contexts and child health in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Australia

BMC Public Health

Ross Bailie¹  Matthew Stevens¹ 

[1]Menzies School of Health Research, Institute of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

关键词: Public health;    Indigenous;    Child health;    Gambling;   

Others  :  1163598
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-12-377

 received in 2012-02-07, accepted in 2012-05-25,  发布年份 2012

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2012 Stevens and Bailie; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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