Breaking the barriers: Migrants and tuberculosis

Presse Medicale

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2017, Pages e5-e11

  Sotgiu, Giovanni ^a   Dara, Masoud ^b   Centis, Rosella ^b   Matteelli, Alberto ^c   Solovic, Ivan ^d   Gratziou, Christina ^e   Rendon, Adrian ^f   Battista Migliori, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RU OMBEROK   (Slovakia)

^e Evgenidion Hospital   (Greece)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR JOSÉ ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; MASS SCREENING; POVERTY; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EUROPE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEES; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85013992269     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lpm.2017.01.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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