Access to tuberculosis services for individuals with disability in Rural Malawi, a qualitative study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Grut, Lisbet ^a   Sanudi, Lifah ^b   Braathen, Stine Hellum ^a   Jürgens, Thomas ^c   Eide, Arne H ^a  

^a SINTEF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY   (Norway)

^b Research for Equity and Community Health Trust   (Malawi)

^c LHL's International Tuberculosis Foundation (LHL International)   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; MALAWI; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSON WITH DISABILITY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL STIGMA; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STAFF TRAINING; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSON; EVALUATION STUDY; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISABLED PERSONS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926430304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122748     Document Type: Article

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