Disadvantage and disease: experience of type 2 diabetes among low income earners in Perth, Western Australia

Diabetes prevalence is increasing in Australia and worldwide. An estimated four per cent of the Australian population in 2007–08 had been diagnosed with diabetes, and figures show stark inequities in prevalence and clinical outcomes among Indigenous people and low socio-economic groups.This qualitat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cuesta Briand, Maria Beatriz
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1800