Providing financial incentives to rural-to-urban tuberculosis migrants in Shanghai: An intervention study

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wei, Xiaolin ^a   Zou, Guanyang ^b   Yin, Jia ^b   Walley, John ^b   Yang, Huaixia ^c   Kliner, Merav ^b   Mei, Jian ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c Changning Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Domestic migrants; Effectiveness; Financial incentive; Poverty; Public health; Treatment completion; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84879712809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-1-9     Document Type: Article

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