Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Al Maniri, Abdullah ^a,b   Fochsen, Grethe ^c   Al Rawas, Omar ^a   De Costa, Ayesha ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Styrelsen for Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; OMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TUBERCULOSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OMAN; PUBLIC POLICY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77954546428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-210     Document Type: Article

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