Rural poverty and delayed presentation to tuberculosis services in Ethiopia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 330-335

  Cambanis, Alexis ^a   Yassin, Mohammed A ^b   Ramsay, Andy ^b   Squire, S Bertel ^b   Arbide, Isabel ^c   Cuevas, Luis E ^b  

^a St Elizabeth General Hospital   (Cameroon)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Bushullo Major Health Centre   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Patient delay; Poverty; Socio economic factors; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 17644420714     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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