Care seeking behavior of chest symptomatics: A community based study done in south india after the implementation of the RNTCP

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Charles, Niruparani ^a   Thomas, Beena ^a   Watson, Basilea ^a   Raja Sakthivel, M ^a   Chandrasekeran, V ^a   Wares, Fraser ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Office of the WHO Representative to India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; URBAN AREA; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958485627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012379     Document Type: Article

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