Barriers to hospital and tuberculosis programme collaboration in China: Context matters

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zou, Guanyang ^a,b   King, Rebecca ^a   Walley, John ^a   Yin, Jia ^c   Sun, Qiang ^d   Wei, Xiaolin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collaboration; General hospitals; Open systems; Tuberculosis programme

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COOPERATION; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHINA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84948799400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.27067     Document Type: Article

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