From where are Tuberculosis patients accessing treatment in India? results from a cross-sectional community based survey of 30 districts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Satyanarayana, Srinath ^a,b   Nair, Sreenivas Achutan ^a   Chadha, Sarabjit Singh ^a   Shivashankar, Roopa ^c   Sharma, Geetanjali ^a   Yadav, Subhash ^a   Mohanty, Subrat ^a   Kamineni, Vishnuvardhan ^a   Wilson, Nevin Charles ^a   Harries, Anthony David ^b,d   Dewan, Puneet Kumar ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b Center for Operations Research   (France)

^c Center for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)   (India)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SELF REPORT; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF REPORT; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80052407684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024160     Document Type: Article

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