Barriers to hospital and tuberculosis programme collaboration in China: context matters

• Main Authors: Guanyang Zou (Author), Rebecca King (Author), John Walley (Author), Jia Yin (Author), Qiang Sun (Author), Xiaolin Wei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: In many developing countries, programmes for 'diseases of social importance', such as tuberculosis (TB), have traditionally been organised as vertical services. In most of China, general hospitals are required to report and refer suspected TB cases to the TB programme for stand...