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Vishal Chauhan
Health inequality has been a major cause of concern across the world largely among policy planners, medical professionals and citizens. Despite higher levels of per capita income, substantial differences in health status are found within developed countries. This can be attribute…
Nadia A. Sam‐Agudu, Chandy C. John
…iod with the COVID-19 pandemic, the critical role of global health equity in preventing and controlling pandemics has received far too little attention. A major manifestation of this inequity is in access to COVID-19 vaccine supply in the global effort to reach herd immunity. The…
Zeinab M. Zaki, Magdy M. Khalil, Khaled M. Wagih, Hieba G. Ezzelregal
…demic expanded very rapidly to become a great global public health problem with wide health, economic, social, and developmental consequences that have not been seen with any other disease. Globally, there have been gains across the HIV testing and treatment cascade. The greatest…
Fregky Apay, Rohmani Rohmani
…erculosis (TB) is an infectious disease as a major cause of health problems. TB is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A quarter of the world's population has been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Diagnosis and …
Williams GA, Scott-Baird E, Núñez A, Salguero FJ, Wood E, et al.
…bal disease of livestock that has damaging economic, animal health and public health consequences. Conventional bTB disease control strategies, based around the testing and slaughter of cattle infected with bTB, are typically used to help limit or reduce the transmission of this …
Srinivasan S, Easterling L, Rimal B, Niu XM, Conlan AJK, et al.
…tle that impacts productivity and represents a major public health threat. Despite the considerable economic costs and zoonotic risk consequences associated with the disease, accurate estimates of bTB prevalence are lacking in many countries, including India, where national contr…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…ssing them demands a holistic approach, reaching beyond the health sector alone. In response to this, several United Nations agencies made a joint commitment to support Member States in scaling up cross-sectoral approaches to address the risk factors and determinants of these thr…
van de Berg S, van de Berg S, Jansen-Aaldring N, de Vries G, van den Hof S
…e Citation Index and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health and Literature were searched for the period 01.2006-05.2016 on publications describing tuberculosis patient support interventions in low-incidence countries ( Results Through our search strategy, 1875 unique publi…
Reya Farber, Rachel Rhee-Feitel, Amelia Lewis
Global health actors, institutions, and communities are trying to respond to the unprecedented U.S. development aid cuts and the “America First” strategy to global health that focuses largely on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, polio, and global health security. Ami…
Angella Musiimenta, PhD
…sis medication adherence. Tuberculosis is a serious public health concern which kills more people annually than HIV and malaria combined. Worldwide, nearly 10 million people develop tuberculosis and nearly 2 million people die from tuberculosis annually. Low-income countries acc…
Charlier J, Barkema HW, Becher P, De Benedictis P, Hansson I, et al.
Animal health is a prerequisite for global health, economic development, food security, food quality, and poverty reduction, while mitigating against climate change and biodiversity loss. We did a qualitative review of 53 infectious diseases in terrestrial animals with data from …
He X, Chiu YH, Chang TH, Lin TY, Wang Z
…r polluting gases are damaging the environment and people's health, with a particular spike in incidences of many air pollution-related diseases in recent years. While there have been many documents discussing China's energy and environmental issues in the past, few of them analy…
Van Rie A, De Vos E, Costa E, Verboven L, Ndebele F, et al.
…-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) remains an important global health problem. Ideally, the complete drug-resistance profile guides individualized treatment for all RR-TB patients, but this is only practised in high-income countries. Implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) t…
Rivaldo Heru Setiawan
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health challenge, with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) contributing substantially to poor outcomes. Conventional regimens span 18–24 months, leading to limited adherence and treatment success. Shorter treatment regimens …
Tafess K, Beyen TK, Girma S, Girma A, Siu G
Background Tuberculosis remains a serious public health concern globally. The enormous social, economic, and health impacts of the diseases are attributed to the lack of updated data on the prevalence, geospatial distribution, population structures, and genotypic variants of the …
Ketema Tafess, Teresa Beyen, Sisay Girma, Asnakech Wondimu, G. G. Siu
Abstract Background : Tuberculosis remains a serious public health concern globally. The enormous social, economic and health impacts of the diseases are attributed to the lack of detailed understanding of the prevalence, geospatial distribution, population structures, and genoty…
Abu Kausar Mohammad, Morshed Nasir, Sujat Paul, Habibur Rahman, Abul Kalam, et al.
Pneumonia is a worldwide, serious threat to health and an enormous socio-economic burden for health care system. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with a significant mortality and morbidity. Knowledge of predominant microbial patterns in CAP constitutes the basis f…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time.Spreading to nearly every country in the world, it is generating major economic and social costs with potential longlasting scars.Governments of Asia-Pacific countries and territories have acted …
Marc Lipman, Christopher Finn McQuaid, Ibrahim Abubakar, Mishal Khan, Katharina Kranzer, et al.
… virus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease COVID-19 dominated global health and disrupted national economies. Its direct effect has been felt in every country; its secondary impact has played out on other global diseases such as TB. The United Nations Secretary General's 2020 progress rep…
Abdillah Ahsan, Fitri Kurnia Rahim, Elisabeth Kramer, Indah Suci Widyahening, Maulida Gadis Utami
… conducted with 32 recovered TB patients at three community health centers (Moru, Alor Kecil, and Kenarilang). In-depth interviews were held with six key local stakeholders, including representatives from the Health Office, the Research and Development Unit, three heads of commun…
Wong YJ, Ng KY, Lee SWH
…p-outs from the LTBI cascade of care are minimized. Digital health technology could play an important role in case detection and treatment adherence. This study aims to evaluate the use and impact of digital health technology in LTBI care. Methods A systematic literature search w…
katherine Horton
…e care they needed. This denies those affected the right to health and wellbeing and also puts others at risk. Gender has a powerful influence on health and wellbeing, intersecting with other individual, social, and economic factors to impact on people’s right to health and equit…
Chitando M, Cleary S, Cunnama L
…ic evaluations (EEs) seek to guide decision-makers on which health care interventions to adopt to reduce the paediatric pulmonary disease burden. This study aims to systematically review economic evaluations on different aspects of the inpatient management of paediatric pulmonary…
Osei E, Oppong S, Adanfo D, Doepe BA, Owusu A, et al.
…(TB) remains a petrified condition with a huge economic and health impact on families and health systems in Ghana. Monitoring of TB programme performance indicators can provide reliable data for direct measurement of TB incidence and mortality. This study reflects on the trends o…
Klauss Villalva-Serra, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Moreno M Rodrigues, Artur T L Queiroz, Julio Croda, et al.
…+isoniazid (3HP), a short-course TPT regimen, in its public health system. We evaluated the health and economic impact of Brazil's implementation of this patient-friendly regimen for short-course TPT. **METHODS:** We analysed surveillance data on 171 174 individuals initi…