Engaging new migrants in infectious disease screening: A qualitative semi-structured interview study of UK migrant community health-care leads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Seedat, Farah ^a   Hargreaves, Sally ^a   Friedland, Jonathan S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIGRANT; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENGLAND; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84908046830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108261     Document Type: Article

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