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A research proposal for a quantitative project:
Sayers, S.M., Mackerras, D., Singh, G., Bucens, I., Flynn K. and Reid, A. (2003) 'An Australian Aboriginal birth cohort: a unique resource for a life course study of an Indigenous population. A study protocol', BMC International Health and Human Rights, 3:1