Do transportation subsidies and living allowances improve tuberculosis control outcomes among internal migrants in urban Shanghai, China?

• Main Authors: Xin Chen (Author), Jing Chen (Author), Weiping Ma (Author), Laiwa Wu (Author), Wei Wang (Author), Fei Yan (Author), Hui Lu (Author), Jian Mei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) in internal migrants is one of three threats for TB control in China. To address this threat, a project was launched in eight of the 19 districts of Shanghai in 2007 to provide transportation subsidies and living allowances for all migrant TB cases. This study aims to...