1. Aboriginal health-workers' response to an outbreak of measles
- Author
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Rodderick Burnnett, Eleanor Brooks, Irene Ogilvie, Jeannie Gadambua, Selina Helwind, and Patricia Gamananga
- Subjects
Male ,Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander ,Project commissioning ,Disease ,Measles ,Disease Outbreaks ,Aboriginal health ,medicine ,Humans ,Northern territory ,Socioeconomics ,Child ,Immunization Schedule ,Community Health Workers ,business.industry ,Outbreak ,Infant ,Advertising ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Aboriginal community ,Geography ,Publishing ,Child, Preschool ,Immunization ,Queensland ,business - Abstract
The Northern Territory Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in the Central Australia has frequently been affected by several epidemics of measles causing deaths since its first occurrence in 1948. The Bagot community's Aboriginal health workers have taken action to prevent the spread of measles by way of immunisation, which has helped curtail the disease in the region.
- Published
- 1989