Health professionals as stigmatisers of tuberculosis: Insights from community members and patients with TB in an urban district in Ghana

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 301-310

  Dodor, Emmanuel Atsu ^a,b   Kelly, Shona ^a   Neal, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ghana; Health professionals; Stigmatisation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; FOOD SAFETY; GHANA; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIETY; STIGMA; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GHANA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; STEREOTYPING; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69149092390     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500902730127     Document Type: Article

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