Screening migrants for tuberculosis - A missed opportunity for improving knowledge and attitudes in high-risk groups: A cross-sectional study of Swedish-language students in Umeå, Sweden

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nkulu, Faustine K K ^a   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^a   Ahlm, Clas ^a   Krantz, Ingela ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SWEDEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; SWEDEN; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953558250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-349     Document Type: Article

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