Treating tuberculosis as a social disease

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9936, 2014, Pages 2195-

  Ali, Mohsin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CROWDING (AREA); HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MIGRANT; NOTE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

CITIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84903130620     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61063-1     Document Type: Note

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