Turning liabilities into resources: Informal village doctors and tuberculosis control in Bangladesh

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 479-484

  Hamid Salim, M A ^a   Uplekar, Mukund ^b   Daru, Paul ^a   Aung, Maug ^a   Declercq, E ^c   Lönnroth, Knut ^b  

^a Damien Foundation Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Damien Foundation   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; DISEASE CONTROL; RURAL AREA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; RURAL AREA; SPUTUM SMEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; URINALYSIS;

BANGLADESH; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33744947052     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.05.023929     Document Type: Article

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