Socioeconomic impact of TB on patients registered within RNTCP and their families in the year 2007 in Chennai, India

Lung India

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-226

  Ananthakrishnan, Ramya ^a   Jeyaraj, Anita ^b   Palani, Gopal ^b   Sathiyasekaran, B W C ^b  

^a SREE BALAJI MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chennai; DOTS; economic impact; social impact; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 84864882434     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.99103     Document Type: Article

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