The rural-to-urban migrant population in China: Gloomy prospects for tuberculosis control

BioScience Trends

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 226-230

  Tobe, Ruoyan Gai ^a   Xu, Lingzhong ^a   Song, Peipei ^a   Huang, Yong ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Province Center for Digestive Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

China; Directly observed treatment strategy (DOTS); Migrant population; Tuberculosis control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSURANCE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE;

EID: 84863232341     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2011.v5.6.226     Document Type: Article

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