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Rafael Ortega
… approach to addressing tuberculosis (TB) by addressing the social determinants that influence the prevalence and spread of the disease. First, the role played by social determinants is evaluated. It is emphasized that the efforts made on tuberculosis control must go beyond the t…
Mariana Vieira, Pedro Barbosa, João Pedro Ramos, Marta Castro, Dulce Torres, et al.
…dence and mortality rates persist, partly due to entrenched social and structural challenges. TB-related stigma is a critical barrier to effective TB prevention and treatment. However, existing frameworks often overlook broader structural and intersectional influences, underscori…
Akanksha Sirohi, Yash Vardhan Trivedi, Tavishi Katoch, Benjamin Walters, Vasu Bansal, et al.
…t strategies, and the importance of addressing clinical and social determinants of health to achieve TB elimination goals.MethodsA review of the latest evidence-based guidelines and literature on TB diagnostics, treatment regimens, and latent TB infection (LTBI) management was co…
Emir Muvaffak, Salah Safadi, Mohammad Al-Abbas, Mazen Kherallah, Abdulselam Daif, et al.
…unequal access to TB prevention, diagnostics and management social determinants such as poverty, malnutrition, inadequate water and sanitation, and lack of proper shelter, along with risks associated with disadvantaged groups, including internally displaced people, detainees, for…
Ann M Philbrick, Omolayo Umaru, Sarah Jane Brown, Alec Helmke, Kathryn Momary, et al.
…g need to address their unique health challenges, alongside social determinants of health (SDOH). Pharmacists are well-positioned to mitigate these disparities. **OBJECTIVES:** This scoping review aims to identify pharmacist-led interventions targeting immigrants and refugees in…
Sizulu Moyo, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Jeremiah Chikovore, Nompumelelo Zungu
…middle-income countries. Sex and gender interact with other social determinants to influence the burden of TB in different populations. The population groups at greater risk of TB are often also at greater risk for health disparities. Although evidence consistently shows that the…
Xue Gu, Xiao-Yan Wang, Jian-Na Zhang
…tening the lives of patients and imposing significant psychosocial burdens. Recent studies have highlighted the crucial role of psychosocial factors, including socioeconomic status, disease severity, and social support systems in recovery. However, research gaps persist in develo…
Paul H. Mason
…omplex interplay between individual experiences and broader social, economic, and political forces shaping TB prevalence and outcomes. Focusing on Aluni and her family’s experiences with TB, the ethnography illuminates challenges posed by overcrowded living conditions, economic d…
Charles S Bryan, Mason J Schroeder
… data to refute the "Black Extinction Hypothesis" rooted in social Darwinism. He challenged assumptions of inherent Black susceptibility to tuberculosis, linking disease instead to social determinants of health. He also identified disproportionate mortality from kidney and cardio…
Rita Verstraeten, Marta Cossa, Leonardo Martínez, Kristin N. Nelson, Dinis Nguenha, et al.
…obal TB targets, while taking into account risk factors and social determinants to help optimise intervention targets.
Joia S. Mukherjee, Paul E. Farmer
…r public works and infrastructure, inadequate protection of social and economic rights, poverty, violence, and inadequate access to medical care and antibiotics. The authors assert that addressing the differential prevalence of infectious diseases requires a holistic approach tha…
Jamal Hassan Mohamoud, Mohamed Hussein Adam, Ahmed Mahad Sheikh Mohamed, Mohamed Adam Mahamud, Hodo Aideed Asowe
…Somalia, examines the health system and socio-environmental determinants of transmission, reviews the national TB control response, and highlights key challenges and future directions for TB elimination. Strengthening surveillance, expanding access to diagnostic and treatment ser…
Jamal Hassan Mohamoud
…opulation displacement, fragile health systems, and adverse social determinants of health. Although Somalia has made progress in expanding TB services and achieving favourable treatment outcomes for drug-susceptible TB, the country continues to experience a high TB burden and eme…
Michely Alexandrino Pinheiro Mascarenhas, Rafaela Baroni Aurilio, Gustavo Guida Godinho da Fonseca, Gilberto Bueno Fischer, Clemax Couto Sant'Anna, et al.
The social determinants of tuberculosis (TB) are well established. However, evidence indicates that genetic variants may also significantly influence an individual's susceptibility to or resistance to TB. The risk of TB is connected to polymorphisms in genes related to immunity a…
Parissa Farnia, Ali Akbar Velayati, Jalaledin Ghanavi, Poopak Farnia
…st in low- and middle-income countries, where socioeconomic determinants such as poverty, malnutrition, overcrowded living conditions, and limited access to quality healthcare exacerbate disease transmission and worsen outcomes. The emergence and spread of drug-resistant TB, incl…
Christian Kraef, Ole Kirk
…risk. This review provides an overview of the epidemiology, determinants, regional differences, diagnostic and therapeutic standards, and future challenges of TB/HIV co-infection in Europe. **RECENT FINDINGS:** Socioeconomic factors, including substance abuse, incarceration and …
Etang UE, Richard RE, Nseobong Godwin Akpan, Emily Vu, Ntekpere EI, et al.
…in countries with low socio-economic 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…
Ariel Torres, Gisselle Trujillo, José Daniel Sánchez
…. This study offers a critical reflection on the magnitude, determinants, and implications of DR-TB in regional penitentiary contexts. A reflective analytical review was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO, and LILACS, complemented by WHO and PAHO reports, priorit…
Reiko Hayashi
…mpact of pandemics. Evolving policies, shaped by political, social and economic conditions, addressed challenges posed by cholera, tuberculosis and the Epidemic Cold (Spanish influenza), ultimately leading to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage in 1961. The unexpectedly …
Roshna Lytton, Nanda Kumar Paniyadi, Prasanta Raghab Mohapatra, Priyanka Singh, Anuradha Kumari, et al.
… tuberculosis often experience concerns regarding potential social isolation affecting their family life, education, marriage, occupation, treatment, and social life. The goal of the present study was to determine the prevalence of stigma and depression in tuberculosis patients a…
Reya Farber, Rachel Rhee-Feitel, Amelia Lewis
…alized neglect of people and health issues, we argue that a social scientific lens is increasingly necessary to understand and improve conditions associated with Neglected Tropical Diseases throughout the world. Neglected Tropical Diseases are an institutionalized group of 20 div…
Francisco de Assis Moura Batista, Juliana Iscarlaty Freire de Araújo, Fernanda Cunha Soares, Thalyta Cristina Mansano Schlosser, Clarissa Terenzi Seixas, et al.
…es that integrate active surveillance, early diagnosis, and social support. The results provide a basis for evidence-based interventions aimed at controlling pulmonar tuberculosis in this vulnerable population.
Liam Rourke, Ronald Damant, Janice Y Kung, Chantell Widney
…od described by Arksey and O'Malley. We searched health and social science databases from 1963 to present using the subject headings Stigma and Health delimited by terms indexing over 600 Indigenous groups in Canada. Within the 1,852 results, we searched for reports in which the …
Supriya Mallick, Manish Shankar, Satyadeo Choubey, Arshad Ejazi, Rakesh Kumar, et al.
…is continues to be a major threat to mankind and is a major social and economic burden to society. Line probe assay (LPA) is a method for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) in combination with resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid by first-line LPA, resistance to fluoroq…
Jessica Cassyle Carr
…irborne infections. This chapter explores the environmental determinants of health that enable these pathogens, as well as approaches to facilitate their prevention and control. It also examines the most enduring airborne pathogen, tuberculosis, and how policies that favored high…