An ethnography of nonadherence: Culture, poverty, and tuberculosis in urban Bolivia

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 401-425

  Greene, Jeremy A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Aymara; Bolivia; Ethnography; Patient nonadherence; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOLIVIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BOLIVIA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 10344247948     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MEDI.0000046429.55801.c8     Document Type: Review

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