Active case finding among marginalised and vulnerable populations reduces catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis diagnosis

Active case finding among marginalised and vulnerable populations reduces catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis diagnosis

Background: There is limited evidence on whether active case finding (ACF) among marginalised and vulnerable populations mitigates the financial burden during tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. Objectives: To determine the effect of ACF among marginalised and vulnerable populations on prevalence and inequ...

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Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Vivek Gupta, Srinath Satyanarayana, Atul Kharate, K.N. Sahai, Lakshmi Murali, Sanjeev Kamble, Madhav Deshpande, Naresh Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Prabhat Pandey, U.N. Bajpai, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Soundappan Kathirvel, Sripriya Pandurangan, Subrat Mohanty, Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule, Karuna D. Sagili, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Sudhi Nath, Priyanka Singh, Kamlesh Singh, Ramesh Singh, Gurukartick Jayaraman, P. Rajeswaran, Binod Kumar Srivastava, Moumita Biswas, Gayadhar Mallick, Om Prakash Bera, A. James Jeyakumar Jaisingh, Ali Jafar Naqvi, Prafulla Verma, Mohammed Salauddin Ansari, Prafulla C. Mishra, G. Sumesh, Sanjeeb Barik, Vijesh Mathew, Manas Ranjan Singh Lohar, Chandrashekhar S. Gaurkhede, Ganesh Parate, Sharifa Yasin Bale, Ishwar Koli, Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj, G. Venkatraman, K. Sathiyanarayanan, Jinesh Lal, Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Raghuram Rao, Ajay M.V. Kumar, Sarabjit Singh Chadha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
tuberculosis/prevention and control
systematic screening
vulnerable populations
health care costs
health equity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2018.1494897

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