Health care seeking behaviour for tuberculosis symptoms in Kiev City, Ukraine

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 390-395

  Van Der Werf, Marieke J ^a   Chechulin, Y ^b   Yegorova, O B ^c   Marcinuk, T ^c   Stopolyanskiy, A ^d   Voloschuk, V ^c   Zlobinec, M ^e   Vassall, A ^f   Veen, J ^a   Hasker, E ^a,b   Turchenko, L V ^a  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b Project Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Kiev City Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^c Kiev City TB Department   (Ukraine)

^d BOGOMOLETS NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e Tuberculosis and Pulmonology Faculty   (Ukraine)

^f ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care seeking; Patient delay; Tuberculosis; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UKRAINE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; UKRAINE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33645660469     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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