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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…
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…
d'Elbée M, Harker M, Mafirakureva N, Nanfuka M, Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet M, 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 In this mathematical modelling study, we assessed the cost-effectiveness a…
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…
Human Sciences Research Council
…ployment decline. The results suggested that the employment-health relationship possibly operated through illness being associated with increased economic inactivity, rather than through making the search efforts of the unemployed unsuccessful. Moreover, the employment-health rel…
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…
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 …
Wajahat Hussain
…municable diseases along with financial issues faced by the health system.
Robert Paulino-Ramírez, Rita Rojas, Maridania Jabier
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health issue, especially affecting countries in the Global South, including the Dominican Republic.This comment discusses TB epidemiology, HIV co-infection and stigma-associated intersectionality, and diagnosis barriers, offering insights for future …
Mitsuo Isono
…at led to a shift to horizontal approaches to strengthening health systems. Additionally, there have been innovative changes in programmatic components of infectious disease control, such as the introduction of the concept of “global health security” and the revision of the Inter…
Miao Yi, Yi Ren, Tongwei Ren
…ransmissibility may bring challenges to the distribution of health care in a large population country like China. Investigating the behavior of the virus in the Chinese population will certainly help to plan for the upcoming surge of Omicron. Therefore, we made a preliminary anal…
B Laxmi Kanta, C Subburaman
…that would provide hints for future research in the area of Health Economics under the headings of tuberculosis.
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…
Hafiz Muhammad Saqib, Syed Adnan Alı Shah, Wasif Irfan, Muhammad Tayyab Akhtar, Muhammad Awais Ali Akram
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health challenge in Pakistan, ranking fifth globally in terms of incidence and contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality. Despite advances in global TB control, Pakistan continues to face a rising burden, with repor…
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…
Laure Stella GHOMA LINGUISSI, Laure Stella GHOMA LINGUISSI
…rucial weapon, especially in regions grappling with limited healthcare infrastructure. This strategy hinges on ensuring patients adhere to their medication regimens under direct observation. In the Republic of Congo, where TB remains a pressing public health concern, healthcare w…
Laure Stella GHOMA LINGUISSI, Laure Stella GHOMA LINGUISSI
…rucial weapon, especially in regions grappling with limited healthcare infrastructure. This strategy hinges on ensuring patients adhere to their medication regimens under direct observation. In the Republic of Congo, where TB remains a pressing public health concern, healthcare w…
Namrata Rana, James C. Johnston, Kevin Schwartzman, Olivia Oxlade, Pedro Suarez, et al.
Abstract A major contributor to the tuberculosis burden in the United States (US) and Canada is the progression of tuberculosis infection acquired before immigration among persons born outside the US and Canada. Domestic interventions against tuberculosis, such as those associate…
Heise Lori
Historically, epidemics have been as profound an agent for societal change as wars. The smallpox virus that Cortez loosed upon the Aztecs was largely responsible for Spain’s conquest of this mighty empire. The plague that ravaged 14th-century Europe ruptured the bonds of feudalis…