Perceptions, health seeking behaviour and access to diagnosis and treatment initiation among previously undetected leprosy cases in rural Maharashtra, India

Leprosy Review

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 222-234

  Atre, Sachin Ramchandra ^a   Rangan, Sheela Girish ^b   Shetty, Vanaja Prabhakar ^c   Gaikwad, Nilesh ^c   Mistry, Nerges Furdoon ^a,c  

^a Foundation for Research in Community Health India   (India)

^b Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences   (India)

^c FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOOT MALFORMATION; HAND MALFORMATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SKIN REDNESS; SKIN TINGLING; SOCIAL STATUS; STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054739252     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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