Patient's site of first access to health system influences length of delay for tuberculosis treatment in Tajikistan

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ayé, Raffael ^a   Wyss, Kaspar ^a   Abdualimova, Hanifa ^b   Saidaliev, Sadullo ^c  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Project Sino   (Tajikistan)

^c Republican Centre for Tuberculosis Control   (Tajikistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TAJIKISTAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TAJIKISTAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77149156614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-10     Document Type: Article

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