Evidence-based, agreed-uponhealth priorities to remedy the tuberculosis patient's economic disaster

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1563-1566

  Sotgiu, Giovanni ^a   Mauch, Verena ^b   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^c   Benedetti, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGY; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE ELIMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INFECTION CONTROL; INSURANCE; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ECONOMICS;

COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84901843119     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00064314     Document Type: Editorial

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