Increasing hepatitis B testing and linkage to care of foreign-born Asians, Sacramento, California, 2012–2013

Public Health Reports

Volumn 131, Issue , 2016, Pages 119-124

  Dang, Julie H T ^a   Chen, Moon S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CALIFORNIA; CHINESE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B TESTING; HMONG (PEOPLE); HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; KOREAN (PEOPLE); LANGUAGE; LINKAGE TO CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; VIETNAMESE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; UTILIZATION;

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84966526013     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549161310S218     Document Type: Article

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