Lost and found: improving ascertainment of refugee-background Australians in population datasets

Gibson-Helm, Melanie E; Block, Andrew A; Teede, Helena J

doi:10.5694/mja12.11742

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To the Editor: We strongly support Paxton and colleagues in the call for inclusion of year of arrival in routine health datasets to inform improvement in health service provision in Australia.1

1 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Refugee Health Service, Southern Health, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: denise.best@monash.edu

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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