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Sweeney S
With the global scale-up of universal health coverage and a renewed interest in reducing poverty and vulnerability in the context of health, there have been substantial efforts towards including a representation of the economic impact of illness on patients and their households m…
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
…taff and infrastructure, making them unsuitable for primary health care (PHC). The overall objectives for this project are to: 1. To evaluate the performance of selected TB tests and test combinations in primary health care settings and KVPs. 2. To identify test combinations th…
Allison Portnoy, Rebecca A. Clark, Chathika K. Weerasuriya, Christinah Mukandavire, Matthew Quaife, et al.
…risk protection from introducing novel TB vaccines, and how health and economic benefits would be distributed across income quintiles. Methods: We modelled the impact of introducing TB vaccines meeting the WHO preferred product characteristics in 105 LMICs. For each country, we a…
Simwinga M, Mahlatsi PA, Molale M, Witola G, Mshanga I, et al.
…navirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had a devastating impact on health systems and population health globally. To combat the spread of COVID-19, countries enacted guidelines and safety measures, including testing, contact tracing, and quarantine. It was unclear the extent to which up…
Portnoy A, Clark RA, Weerasuriya CK, Mukandavire C, Quaife M, et al.
…risk protection from introducing novel TB vaccines, and how health and economic benefits would be distributed across income quintiles. Methods We modelled the impact of introducing TB vaccines meeting the World Health Organization preferred product characteristics in 105 LMICs. F…
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…
Marc d’Elbée, Martin Harker, Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Mastula Nanfuka, Minh Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, et al.
…ralising childhood tuberculosis diagnosis services to lower health system levels could improve case detection, but there is little empirically based evidence on cost-effectiveness or budget impact. Methods We assessed the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of decentralising a c…
Pei PP, Fitzmaurice KP, Le MH, Panella C, Jones ML, et al.
… tests for HIV-associated tuberculosis could improve public health decision making and clinical and economic outcomes. Methods. We evaluated the clinical outcomes and costs, given current information, of 3 tuberculosis screening strategies among hospitalized people with HIV in So…
Mou L, Wiwatpanit T, Piriyapol A, Chawengkul P, Thaipadungpanit J, et al.
…ab (TS), can address this gap. This study conducts an early Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of TS for PTB diagnosis in Thailand. Methods We conducted a landscape review, stakeholder consultation, early health economic modeling, and established a Target Product Profile (TPP). T…
Romaniuk P, Poznańska A, Brukało K, Holecki T
The aim of the article is to compare health system outcomes in the BRICS countries, assess the trends of their changes in 2000-2017, and verify whether they are in any way correlated with the economic context. The indicators considered were: nominal and per capita current health …
Justin T. Denholm, Marcel A. Behr, Gèrard de Vries, Richard Anthony, Esther Robinson, et al.
…ng (WGS) to support key aspects of tuberculosis (TB) public health and clinical practice, including monitoring of laboratory and clinical practices, detection and surveillance of drug resistance, and guidance of targeted public health interventions such as expanded contact invest…
Singh BB, Kaur R, Gill GS, Gill JPS, Soni RK, et al.
Zoonotic diseases cause significant health and economic impact in developing countries such as India. Many zoonotic diseases are prevalent in the livestock and as an occupational zoonosis in the livestock farmers in India. Lack of knowledge on the disease transmission, prevention…
Maja TF, Maposa D
… available open access secondary data of 2019 South African Health and Demographic Survey from Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) website, which was collected from self-reported information relating to TB in the household questionnaire. The factors analysed were of demographic, so…
Ding Y, Tomeny EM, Bates I
…iplinary research (CDR) skills and collaborations in global health, and to produce recommendations for improving the design, implementation and management of cross-disciplinary global health research programmes. Design Using a North-South global health research programme as a cas…
Kimberly Conteddu, Holly M. English, Andrew W. Byrne, Bawan Amin, Laura L. Griffin, et al.
…epresent a significant societal challenge in terms of their health and economic impacts. One Health approaches to managing zoonotic diseases are becoming more prevalent, but require novel thinking, tools and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one examp…
Conteddu K, English HM, Byrne AW, Amin B, Griffin LL, et al.
…epresent a significant societal challenge in terms of their health and economic impacts. One Health approaches to managing zoonotic diseases are becoming more prevalent, but require novel thinking, tools and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one examp…
Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro, Edisua H. Itam, Emmanuel Ezedinachi
…gent on addressing ways of reducing the impact of TB to the health, socio-economic and health system of populations most at risk. Micronutrients supplementation is increasingly being recognized as having great potentials to that effect.
 Objective: This study thus assessed t…
Samuel Ndakotsu Gana, Zigwai Gloria Kuyet, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril
…species paratuberculosis (MAP). Due to its impact on animal health and severe economic loss, the disease is recognized and reported in developed countries as a significant disease of livestock importance. The paper aims to review the current information about paratuberculosis in …
H Buhari, E Dahiru, E Dahiru, U Abubakar, A Kudi, et al.
…gious, and bacterial disease of immense economic and public health importance globally. It affects domestic and wild animals and man causing respirato-ry disease and to a certain extent, generalized body lesions depending on the mode of transmission and the animal species affecte…
Deng LL, Zhao F, Li ZW, Zhang WW, He GX, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a pressing public health issue, posing a significant threat to individuals' well-being and lives. This study delves into the TB incidence in Chinese mainland during 2014-2021, aiming to gain deeper insights into their epidemiological character…
Mariam Lakara, Anil Kumar Patidar, Anil Sharma
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in developing nations like India, where it imposes a considerable burden. This descriptive cross-sectional study aimed to assess the factors affecting noncompliance with TB medications among pulmonary T…
Mpagama SG, Ezekiel MJ, Mbelele PM, Mbelele PM, Chongolo AM, et al.
…DR-TB that led to seeking services outside the conventional health system; 2) Socio-economic adversity made health-seeking behavior difficult and often unproductive; 3) In the health system, challenges included inadequacy of MDR-TB diagnostic centers, lack of knowledge on behalf …
Jaklin Svetoslavova Doncheva - Dilova, Vladimir Milanov, Vladimira Boyadzhieva, Nikolay Stoilov
…countries in the modern world pose new challenges to public health. Over the centuries, infectious diseases have proven to be one of the major threats to global health. Historically, several pandemics and epidemics have changed and claimed the lives of millions of people around t…
Tim Nguyen
Multilateral health aid is a thoroughly discussed topic in the studies of economic development. This paper builds upon the literature on the Global Fund’s health aid programme by outlining the general issues concerning health aid paradigms. Our quantitative framework uses a fixed…
Savvas Zannetos, Theodora Zachariadou, Tonia Adamidi, Andreas Georgiou

 Background: Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem with considerable economic burden worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of tuberculosis in Cyprus during 2009. 
 Methods: A retrospective probabilistic incidence-based cost o…