Practical approach to lung health: Lung health for everyone?

European Respiratory Review

Volumn 21, Issue 125, 2012, Pages 186-195

  Hamzaoui, Agnes ^a   Ottmani, Salah ^b  

^a ABDERRAHMAN MAMI HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENERIC DRUG; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84865770861     PISSN: 09059180     EISSN: 16000617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00002612     Document Type: Article

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