Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: What makes it work?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 580-586

  Lönnroth, Knut ^a   Uplekar, Mukund ^a   Arora, Vijay K ^b   Juvekar, Sanjay ^c   Lan, Nguyen T N ^d   Mwaniki, David ^e   Pathania, Vikram ^f  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b LRS Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases   (India)

^c Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences   (India)

^d Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^e KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitubercular agents supply and distribution; Directly observed therapy utilization; Health plan implementation; National health programs organization and administration; Private sector utilization; Public sector; Tuberculosis Pulmonary drug therapy

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VIET NAM;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; INDIA; KENYA; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM;

AFRICA; ASIA; DELHI; EAST AFRICA; EURASIA; HO CHI MINH CITY; INDIA; KENYA; MAHARASHTRA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; NEW DELHI; PUNE; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VIET NAM;

EID: 4243094786     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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