'Complex' but coping: Experience of symptoms of tuberculosis and health care seeking behaviours - A qualitative interview study of urban risk groups, London, UK

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Craig, Gillian M ^a   Joly, Louise M ^a   Zumla, Alimuddin ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug users; Health care seeking behaviour; Homeless persons; Social determinants of health; Tuberculosis; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902301026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-618     Document Type: Article

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