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Lee S, Kim MJ, Lee SH, Kim HY, Kim HS, et al.
…DR-TB patients in 2014-2017 using a combination of National Health Insurance claims data, Annual Report on the Notified TB data, and Statistics Korea's mortality data. The incidence-based DALY approach implemented involved the summation of years of life lost and years lived with …
Wu S, Khan M, Legido-Quigley H
Empirical analysis of the connections between research and health policymaking is scarce in middle-income countries. In this study, we focused on a national multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) healthcare provider training programme in China as a case study to examine the role t…
Cannon LL, Oladimeji KE, Goon DT
Background Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) remains a public health concern due to the high morbidity and mortality rates from the disease. The DR-TB is a multifaceted illness with expensive treatment regimens, toxic medications and most often the long duration of treatment constitutes …
Korzeniewska-Koseła MJ, Wesołowski S
…ckground Tuberculosis (TB) tuberculosis remains a worldwide health problem. Objective To evaluate the TB epidemiology in 2022 in Poland and compare it with European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries. Material and methods Analysis of cases registered in 2022, dru…
Chidi L.C. Ndukwu, Roseanne Adah Ikpeama
Community acquired pneumonia is a major global public health concern given its substantial contribution to the mortality and morbidity associated with infectious diseases, the huge losses in human and economic resources and the increasing challenges in treatment due to multidrug …
Santos FLD, Souza LLL, Bruce ATI, Crispim JA, Arroyo LH, et al.
…tant tuberculosis, the perception of why they acquired this health condition and barriers to seeking care in a priority city in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was an exploratory qualitative study, which used the theoretical-methodological framework of the Discourse Ana…
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…ess in the past decade, tuberculosis (TB) is still a public health concern in most of the countries within the WHO European Region. Countries outside of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) still suffer from high rates of TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR…
Nagar S, Nicholls D, Dawoud D
…e, especially drug-resistant TB, poses a major challenge to healthcare systems globally. Addressing this requires appraising the cost effectiveness of existing pharmacological interventions against TB to identify key drivers of cost effectiveness and value and guide pharmaceutica…
Xing W, Zhang R, Jiang W, Zhang T, Pender M, et al.
…s with 132 MDR-TB patients and six in-depth interviews with health care workers (HCWs) from primary health centers (PHC), doctors from MDR-TB designated hospitals and MDR-TB patients were conducted. Surveys collected demographic and socio-economic characteristics, as well as fact…
Bilin Tao, Jizhou Wu, Beibei Qiu, Zhongqi Li, Mengyao Zhan, et al.
… MTBC lineage and to explore the correlation between Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and drug resistance. Methods We mapped the global geographic distribution of MTBC lineages using the whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and verified data from the TBProfiler. The hierarchical stru…
Amanda B. Thusi, Jessica Paken
…most studies on drug resistant TB are focused on the public health concerns of the disease, the human costs of MDR-TB are sometimes overlooked. </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aims to describe the psychological, social, economic and vocational impact of hearing l…
Mardalyne M. Salve, Hamdoni Pangandaman
… and available data records of MDR-TB clients at respective health centres at Jolo and Sulu and tools assessing factors influencing treatment. The qualitative approach was done through interviews with the MDR-TB clients, and total remuneration and purposive sampling were applied …
Regan M, Barham T, Li Y, Swartwood NA, Beeler Asay GR, et al.
…st. We aimed to examine the extent to which inequalities in health and neighbourhood-level social vulnerability mediate these disparities. Methods We extracted data from the US National Tuberculosis Surveillance System on individuals with tuberculosis during 2011-19. Individuals …
David Mensah Otoo, Ebenezer Efichie, Darius Lee Aborbor, Henry Okudzeto, Gifty Love Asabekah, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries, including Ghana. In the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region, high treatment default rates raise concerns about multidrug-resistant TB. Since medication…
Noia Maciel EL, Negri LDSA, Guidoni LM, Fregona GC, Johansen FDC, et al.
Background One of the three main targets of the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy (2015-2035) is that no tuberculosis (TB) patients or their households face catastrophic costs (defined as exceeding 20% of the annual household income) because of the disease. Our stud…
Yunbin Yang, Zichao Li, Liangli Liu, Jinou Chen, Ling Li, et al.
…ifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) remains a critical health challenge in southwest China. This study investigates healthcare-seeking delays and patient pathways among RR-TB patients in Yunnan province, employing diagram visualization. Aim to explore the accessibility and c…
Sedona Sweeny
…greater than treating drug susceptible TB, both in terms of health service and patient-incurred costs. Urgent action is needed to Identify short, effective and tolerable treatments for people with MDR-TB. The PRACTECAL economic evaluation sub-study (PRACTECAL-EE) will take place …
Nam VX, Nhung NV, Hoa NB, Thuy HTT, Phuong NTM, et al.
…esistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has become a major worldwide health problem. Various studies have been conducted on the cost of MDR-TB treatment; however, this has remained largely unexplored in Viet Nam. Objective To estimate the total cost of MDR-TB treatment at several health c…
Mahfuza Talukder Flowra, MSc. Yodi Mahendradhata, Mph Ari Probandari
…ol program (NTP), TB is in the top chart of national public health concerns due to MDR-TB as cases are gone under delayed detection and under reported. Thus, the gaps and barriers persisting in the NTP from the community point of view should be unblinded through proper investigat…
Aia P, Viney K, Kal M, Kisomb J, Yasi R, et al.
…with TB disease can be catastrophic for patients, affecting health and socioeconomic outcomes. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a high TB burden country and the costs associated with TB are unknown. METHODS We undertook a national survey of TB patients to determine the magnitude of cost…
Dhasarathan P, AlSalhi MS, Devanesan S, Subbiah J, Ranjitsingh AJA, et al.
…tance in fungal pathogens poses a pressing threat to global health care. The coexistence of drug-resistant Candida albicans with tuberculosis patients and the failure of several drugs to treat C. albicans infection extend hospital stay, economic burden, and death. The misuse or a…
Emeli Paul Choudhury, Kamalesh Sarkar, Umesh Chandra Ojha
…thod: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a government health facility in Karimganj, Assam with 165 patients from the facility who were at least one month into the treatment. A pre-tested interviewer administered questionnaire on sociodemographic, clinical characteristics, a…
Sweeney S, Laurence YV, Berry C, Singh MP, Dodd M, et al.
… safety, and tolerability, and free up resources within the health system. Following a change to WHO rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment guidelines, countries are facing difficult decisions about when and how to incorporate new drug regimens into national guidelines. We a…
Kilale AM, Pantoja A, Jani B, Range N, Ngowi BJ, et al.
…al survey using a standard methodology recommended by World Health Organization. TB patients of all ages and with all types of TB from 30 clusters across Tanzania were interviewed during July - September 2019. We used the human capital approach to assess the indirect costs and a …
Ю. В. Корж, T. A. Romanko, А. В. Волкова, Lubov Tereshсhenko
…D for 2014–2018 presented on the website of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the section “Procurement of Medicines”, as well as statistical data of the “Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” on the incidence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-T…