Targets for tuberculosis control: How confident can we be about the data?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Van Der Werf, Marieke J ^a,b   Borgdorff, Martien W ^a,b  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; MORTALITY; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA;

EID: 34248174270     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.039941     Document Type: Article

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