Health seeking and perceived causes of tuberculosis among patients in Manila, Philippines
Open Access
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 5 (9) , 648-656
Abstract
Summary Inefficient case finding is an important stumbling block to successful control of tuberculosis (TB). Multiple health seeking may account for delayed case finding. Health‐seeking behaviour, he...Keywords
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