How to hinder tuberculosis control: Five easy steps

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9944, 2014, Pages 646-648

  Khan, Mishal S ^a,b   Coker, Richard J ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; DRUG COST; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84906734220     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61175-2     Document Type: Note

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