Migrants and tuberculosis: Analysing epidemiological data with ethnography

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-149

  Littleton, Judith ^a   Park, Julie ^a   Thornley, Craig ^b   Anderson, Anneka ^a   Lawrence, Jody ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Auckland Regional Public Health Service   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Medical anthropology; Migrant health; New Zealand; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CROWDING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ETHNICITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; NEW ZEALAND; POSTPRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STRESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 42549170193     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00191.x     Document Type: Review

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