A community-based program to reduce acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in northern Australia

• Главные авторы: Vicki Kerrigan (Автор), Angela Kelly (Автор), Anne Marie Lee (Автор), Valerina Mungatopi (Автор), Alice G. Mitchell (Автор), Rosemary Wyber (Автор), Anna P. Ralph (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background In Australia's north, Aboriginal peoples live with world-high rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF); driven by social and environmental determinants of health. We undertook a program of work to strengthen RHD primordial and pri...