Lower Respiratory Infections In Australian Indigenous Children

Lower Respiratory Infections In Australian Indigenous Children Kerry-Ann F O'Grady, and Anne B Chang, 2010   Despite Australia being one of the wealthiest countries of the world, Australian Indigenous children have a health status and social circumstance comparable to developing countries. Indigenous infants have 10 times the mortality rate for respiratory conditions. The lower respiratory infection (LRI) rate in Australian Indigenous children is at least as high as that of children in...

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