Engaging hospitals to meet tuberculosis control targets in china: Using the internet as a tool to put policy into practice

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 937-942

  Wang, Lixia ^a   Liu, Xiaoqiu ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Hennig, Cornelia ^b   Uplekar, Mukund ^b   Jiang, Shiwen ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; INTERNET; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERHOSPITAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT REFERRAL; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 78649774681     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.071753     Document Type: Article

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