Migrants' perceptions on barriers to treatment seeking for hypertension: A qualitative study from Delhi, India

Studies on Ethno-Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 173-176

  Kusuma, Yadlapalli S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Public health care systems; Recent migrants; Settled migrants; Socio economically disadvantaged migrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651246294     PISSN: 09735070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09735070.2010.11886377     Document Type: Article

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