[The causes of unauthorized termination of specific treatment by patients with tuberculosis].

Autor: Filippov IuN, Abaeva OP, Barbolina SF
Jazyk: ruština
Zdroj: Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny [Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med] 2010 Mar-Apr (2), pp. 24-6.
Abstrakt: The article deals with the issue of unauthorized termination of chemotherapy by patients with tuberculosis. Some characteristics of present legal base in the aspects of social support of tuberculosis patients are discussed. The results of sociologic survey of patients in the TB dispensaries of Nijegorodskaya oblast related to the issues of TB awareness as a social important and social dangerous disease and its treatment as well. The authors derive from the received data the causes of unauthorized termination of specific treatment by patients and propose new directions of activities related to the amelioration of epidemiologic situation with TB.
Databáze: MEDLINE