Pre-immigration screening process and pulmonary tuberculosis among Ethiopian migrants in Israel

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 413-418

  Mor, Z ^a,d   Lerman, Y ^c   Leventhal, A ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Public Health Services   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Immigration; Israel; Latent tuberculosis infection; Screening; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFANT; ISRAEL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 56149089673     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00145907     Document Type: Article

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