Population aging and migrant workers: Bottlenecks in tuberculosis control in rural China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bele, Sumedh ^a   Jiang, Wei ^b   Lu, Hui ^a   You, Hua ^a   Fan, Hong ^a   Huang, Lifang ^b   Wang, Qungang ^b   Shen, Hongbing ^a   Wang, Jianming ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Suzhou Center for Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MIGRANT WORKER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; AGING; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84896867267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088290     Document Type: Article

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