Pastoralism and delay in diagnosis of TB in Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gele, Abdi A ^a   Bjune, Gunnar ^a   Abebe, Fekadu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ODDS RATIO; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 58649093265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-5     Document Type: Article

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