Private practitioners' knowledge, attitude and practices about tuberculosis, Hooghly District, India

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 199-206

  Datta, Kisalay ^a,b   Bhatnagar, Tarun ^a   Murhekar, Manoj ^a  

^a National Institute of Epidemiology   (India)

^b Health Services   (India)

Author keywords

India; Practitioners; RNTCP; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; SPUTUM;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79952108590     PISSN: 00195707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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