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Josephine N Pieters, Nomsa S Ndaba, Sanele Ngcobo
…ties for mining communities. However, the prioritization of health and wellbeing impacts during the mining life cycle remains unclear. This review examines the focus on health and wellbeing in mining communities within the sub-Saharan African context. **METHODS:** An online lite…
Suresh R, Ruban S, Kumar S
The COVID-19 pandemic and its health, economic and social aftermath has currently overshadowed every other health concern throughout the world. There are numerous ways in which this will impact existing public health issues. In this article we aim to examine and reflect on the in…
Chandra A, Kumar R, Kant S, Parthasarathy R, Krishnan A
…earch terms were "tuberculosis" AND "costs" (cost Analysis, economics, cost of illness, health care costs, health expenditures, direct service costs, catastrophic cost) AND "India". The cost of TB care was from the patient's perspective. Data regarding costs were extracted, index…
Kim S, Tadesse E, Jin Y, Cha S
…aid funds. With the datasets published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developments, and World Health Organization from 2005 to 2017, we analyzed the association between the total DAH or DAH per capita and the disease …
Timothy B Hallett, Nicolas A Menzies, Stephen Resch, Carel Pretorius, John Stover, et al.
… (ROI) was computed considering both the intrinsic value of health and the direct economic benefits of the reduced risk of morbidity and premature mortality. The analysis was completed at the end of 2024 with the latest available data, which pertained to the year 2023. The focus …
Amimo F, Lambert B, Magit A
…r crises in the region. This is due to the vulnerability of health and economic systems, coupled with the high burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB), and malaria. Here we examine the potential implications of COVID-19 on the control of these major epidem…
Al-Zanbagi AB, Shariff MK
…rld too. Its worldwide prevalence with a huge impact on the healthcare system both in economic and health terms has prompted the World Health Organization to make it a top priority infectious disease. Tuberculous infection of the pulmonary system is the most common form of this d…
Chanda-Kapata P, Ntoumi F, Kapata N, Lungu P, Mucheleng'anga LA, et al.
…ID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in African countries' health systems. The impact of shifted focus on COVID-19 for the past 2 years on routine health services, especially those for the epidemics of Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria, have been dramatic in both quantity and q…
Johnson SB
… weeks and months SARS-CoV-2 may ravage countries with weak health systems and populations disproportionately affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and other infectious diseases. Without safeguards and proper attention to global health equity and justice, the effects of this pandem…
Minoglou M, Komilis D
This work examined the dependence of the health care waste generation rates (HCWGR) from economic factors (gross domestic product per capita, health expenditure per capita), social and health-related factors (human development index, life expectancy at birth, mean years of school…
Hennis AJM, Coates A, Del Pino S, Ghidinelli M, Gomez Ponce de Leon R, et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social, economic, and health-related disparities, which disproportionately affect persons living in conditions of vulnerability. Such populations include ethnic groups who face discrimination and experience barriers to accessing comprehensive…
Worbes-Cerezo M, Nafees B, Lloyd A, Gallop K, Ladha I, et al.
…ents. However, specific values which quantify the impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL) for economic evaluation are lacking. Objectives This study aimed to elicit health utility values for AEs related to biologic treatment and surgical complications for CD in the UK. Me…
Sorokina M, Ukubayev T, Koichubekov B
…ased over the period of 2001-2019. Economic development and healthcare capacity were negatively correlated with Tuberculosis incidence. A multiple linear regression equation on Tuberculosis incidence (y) was developed with economic development (x1) and healthcare capacity (x2) cl…
Masoud Arefnezhad, Mahshid Nasehi, Aliakbar Fazaeli, Saeed Sharafi, Rajabali Daroudi
…ACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health crisis, regaining its status as the leading cause of death in 2023. Quantifying its economic burden is essential for crafting effective public health strategies. This study aimed to estimate the economic burden of…
Kallon II, Colvin CJ
…ts who are discharged from hospital and referred to primary health care clinics in South Africa. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of patients, health care workers and family members regarding continuity of TB care in a Cape Town health district…
Ji-Chun Wang, Qin-Yan Zuo, Jin-Xin Zheng, Wen-Wen Lv, Wei Wang, et al.
…iate the disease's economic consequences and improve global health.
Espinoza E, Shaughnessy M, Walker P, Husmann R, Hale G, et al.
… due to language, cultural, and economic issues. Unprepared health systems and providers further contribute to health disparities in transplantation. Foreign-born patients are also at risk for reactivation of latent infections which differ from U.S.-born population. Stratifying t…
Choi H, Chung H, Muntaner C
…examined the extent to which the social consequences of ill health changed since the East Asian economic downturn. Data were collected for 2007-2012 from the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey. To identify associations between TB history and current househol…
de Souza RA, Nery JS, Rasella D, Guimarães Pereira RA, Barreto ML, et al.
…ulosis (TB). Objective To evaluate the impact of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the Bolsa Família Programme on TB-related mortality in Brazil. Methods This was an ecological study in which the units of analysis were Brazilian municipalities between 2001 and 2012. The princi…
Dauda RS, Balogun FA
Per capita health expenditure in West African countries appears to have assumed a growing trend over the years. This may not be unconnected with the critical role played by health in economic growth, sustainable development and human capital formation. This study analysed drivers…
Portnoy A, Arcand JL, Clark RA, Weerasuriya CK, Mukandavire C, et al.
…isability and death impact economic productivity and burden health systems. New TB vaccine products may reduce this burden. In this study, we estimated the impact of introducing novel TB vaccines on gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 105 LMICs. Methods and findings We adapted…
Nura GJ, Wario KS, Erango MA
…e of the most dangerous diseases globally, impacting public health, economics, society, political issues, and communities. As of 2023, the World Health Organization estimates that 40.4 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. This study aimed to identify the determinants of survi…
Subramonian A, Severn M
….2 million deaths attributable to the disease. The enormous health and economic burden caused by the disease make it a major public health issue. In Canada, active TB infection rates are one of the lowest in the world. There were 1,796 active cases of TB nationwide in 2017, mostl…
Ramsay LC, Marina Richardson, Miranda RN, Hassan M, Brode SK, et al.
Background The economic evaluation of health interventions is important in priority setting. Several guidance documents exist to support the conduct of economic evaluations, however, there is limited guidance for the evaluation of non-medical interventions. For tuberculosis (TB),…
Haacker M
The objective to reduce global health inequalities and inequities is integral to the global development agenda, from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the sustainable development goals and the ongoing response to coronavirus disease. Yet, summary measures of global hea…