Access to free or low-cost tuberculosis treatment for migrants and refugees along the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak province, Thailand

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tschirhart, Naomi ^a,b   Nosten, Francois ^b,c   Foster, Angel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthcare access; Migrant; Refugee; TB treatment; Thailand

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LANGUAGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE; SOCIAL NETWORK; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRANT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFUGEE; THAILAND; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TUBERCULOSIS; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIGRATION; MYANMAR; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL;

MYANMAR; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; TAK; THAILAND;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MYANMAR; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFUGEES; THAILAND; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84977263921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0391-z     Document Type: Article

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