DOTS in China - Removing barriers or moving barriers?

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 365-372

  Xu, B ^a,b   Dong, H J ^c   Zhao, Q ^a   Bogg, L ^b,d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Access; China; Control programme; Expenditure; Health care financing; Poverty; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY SHORT COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL FEE; NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAMME; ORGANIZATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33750115879     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czl019     Document Type: Article

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