Results from screening immigrants of low-income countries: Data from a public primary health care

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 92-98

  Hladun, Olga ^a   Grau, Albert ^a   Esteban, Esther ^b   Jansà, Josep M ^c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EUROPE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATURIA; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895811669     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12083     Document Type: Article

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