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Etang UE, Richard RE, Nseobong Godwin Akpan, Emily Vu, Ntekpere EI, et al.
… status. Socio-economic determinants influence individuals’ health behaviours, access to healthcare resources, degree of exposure to certain diseases and environmental factors. The increase in Tuberculosis problem correlates with an increase in countries, particularly in sub-Saha…
Inés García Baena, Katherine Floyd, Lucy Cunnama
…s of economic analysis, global TB financing, micro and macroeconomics, and the catastrophic costs associated with TB. The guiding principles of equity and efficiency are fundamental to the health economics of TB, as well as describing societal losses, including household’s burden…
Shantanu Bhati
…tem. This is a chronic disease. Cancer is not only a public health problem, but also a social and economic problem. Smallpox was the first infectious disease to be declared a "global emergency" by the WHO in 1993 because of its toll on individual health and its wider social and e…
Ronald Labonté, Arne Rückert
…. Antimicrobial resistance has risen near the top of global health threats, posing health security risks within and between countries. Globalization-related weakening of health systems in poorer countries heightens these risks, alongside the medical misuse of existing antibiotics…
Anna Vassall, Yuriy Chechulin, I Raykhert, N Osalenko, MJ van der Werf, et al.
…riod of economic transition has had severe consequences for health and health systems in Ukraine. The tuberculosis (TB) situation illustrates this. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended strategy for TB, Directly Observed Treatment Strategy (DOTS), has the potential to p…
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
COVID-19 continues to pose challenges to people’s health and wellbeing globally and is impeding progress in meeting Goal 3 targets. Before the pandemic, gains were evident in many areas of health, including reproductive, maternal and child health, immunization coverage and treatm…
Reiko Hayashi
While medicine has been present throughout Japan’s history, health administration emerged in modern times, specifically from the Meiji era. The initial development of the health system was significantly influenced by the introduction of Western concepts and the impact of pandemic…
Arnab Chakraborty, Janaka Jayawickrama
…opment Goals (SDGs), especially ending the TB epidemic as a health target. The TB epidemic is strongly influenced by social and economic development and health-related risk factors such as malnutrition, diabetes, unplanned urbanization, HIV infection, alcohol use disorders, and s…
Marc Kanter, Trevor Mark Janus, Marimer Rivera-Nieves
…HIV/AIDS epidemic has been a challenge to the United States health system since the 1980s and continues to represent major health and economic burden. TB cases in the US had been down trending in the 1950s, but since 1985 cases began to rise in urban areas where large communities…
S. Srinivasan, R. Vallipriya, Ajay Kumar Singh
The public-private mix (PPM) involves healthcare providers and communities, addressing TB care through formal and informal approaches in public and private sectors. WHO emphasizes the need for PPM, particularly in private and non-NTP public sectors, to improve care quality. Key i…
Susilawati Susilawati, Dinda Putri, Iis Sinsin, Andri Yan Prima Zani, Yulia Anggraeni Hidayat Putri, et al.
…tudy aligns with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by aiming to improve the quality and accessibility of TB treatment and SDG 1 (No Poverty) by reducing the economic burden on affected communities. The findings highlight the urgent need for sustain…
Gilmar de Oliveira Pinheiro, Thamyres Cardoso de Carvalho, Jumara Batista, Jessica Arjona, Vitoria Souza de Oliveira Nascimento, et al.
…t all age groups causing a strong economic impact on public health systems. Isoniazid, which was launched in the market in the 60’s, has been the most effective antimicrobial drug for the treatment of tuberculosis so far. However, this is a long treatment with many adverse effect…
Mike Frick, Gisa Dang
…nicable diseases worldwide. The application of the right to health with the rights to nondiscrimination and participation has created pathways for civil society involvement in the design, implementation, and oversight of health programs, and has created space to grow social movem…
Rafael Ortega
…g, food security, economic stability, and increasing public health budgets. It also recommends interventions at multiple levels, such as the Community level promoting equity in access to health care services and encouraging a more participatory role among health workers in early …
Nicole Hassoun
…the Human Development Index, consider aspects of population health. This chapter presents the first multi-attribute indicator comparing the impact of key drugs on poor health across the world: the Global Health Impact (GHI) index. It evaluates the impact of key drugs on malaria, …
Milka Musuuo, Omotayo Awofolu
Tuberculosis (TB) is still a big problem for public health around the world, especially in developing countries. In Namibia, the incidence of TB is notably high and is often exacerbated by malnutrition and other socio-economic factors. Namibia is ranked 10th highest in the world,…
Joia S. Mukherjee, Paul E. Farmer
…istic approach that incorporates the social determinants of health and promotes prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The chapter describes in detail the global AIDS movement and its accomplishments. The authors conclude that human suffering due to infectious disease c…
Arnab Chakraborty
…are seriously affected by this disease, even with the World Health Organization and multiple other health organisations – both national and international – trying to find a way forward. What are the reasons for this? This chapter aims to unpack the complicated case of TB in this …
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Kalpana Ramachandran
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe dent in the decades of progress achieved in tuberculosis control and elimination measures, indicating that these measures need to be more structured and resilient. This manuscript focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB control a…
Mbih Jerome Tosam, Jennyfer Ambe, Primus Che
…r and sanitation, as well as an acute shortage of qualified health personnel to manage, control and contain the crisis/spread. Poor and marginalized communities are the most vulnerable because infectious diseases cause not only suffering and death, but also severe economic hardsh…
Chapal Mehra
Abstract COVID-19 has disrupted the health systems in low- and middle-income countries and has consequently unleashed a global health crisis. The lack of preparedness is visible at multiple levels of the healthcare system in India. The health system is overwhelmed by the influx o…
Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller
…development of thorough medical examinations, comprehensive health care and a generous compensation system for whites, alongside a system designed to prevent the employment of men who already developed lung disease and to minimise compensation for the (black) majority of the work…
Monika Monika, Monika Monika
…s the economic dynamics of cattle rearing, animal and human health, and the trade relations of countries across the world. This chapter discusses the major challenges in its control, the types of surveillance programs, all major conventional diagnostic tests, including the gold-s…
Andy Setiawan, Pramudya Pramudya, Hasyrin Ainun
… education, economic level, family support, and the role of health workers.The consequences of self-care can increase the success of recovery and improve quality of life.The conclusion of this concept is to increase nurses' knowledge about self-care in MDR-TB patients who carry o…
Vijai Shanker Verma, Harshita Kaushik, Archana Singh Bhadauria
… the list of diseases with high concern for globally public health and with a negative impact on socio economic status. In our research paper, we have proposed an epidemiological compartment model to study the dynamics of two concomitant diseases. A compartment model has been dev…