Assessing socio-economic factors in relation to stigmatization, impairment status, and selection for socio-economic rehabilitation: A 1-year cohort of new leprosy cases in north Bangladesh

Leprosy Review

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 120-132

  Withington, S G ^a   Joha, S ^a   Baird, D ^b   Brink, M ^a   Brink, J ^a  

^a Danish Bangladesh Leprosy Mission   (Bangladesh)

^b AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BANGLADESH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0038609576     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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