A Community-Based Thalassemia Prevention and Control Model in Northern Thailand

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 86, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2003, Pages

  Pansatiankul, Boonchian ^a   Saisorn, Supachai ^b  

^a QUEEN SIRIKIT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b Chiang Rai Provincial Health Office   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Community Based Thalassemia; Prevention and Control

Indexed keywords

2,6 DICHLOROPHENOLINDOPHENOL; CELLULOSE ACETATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; COMMUNITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; OSMOTIC FRAGILITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; THAILAND; THALASSEMIA; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 0346257874     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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