The Public-Private Mix in India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme - An update

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 161-163

  Rangan, Sheela ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Private Practitioners (PPs); Public Private Mix (PPM); Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP)

Indexed keywords

DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0041816186     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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