ArticleTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2014
Non-clinical factors associated with TB: important for DOTS impact evaluation and disease elimination.
Article in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Patients' Experience of Tuberculosis Treatment Using Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS): A Qualitative Study.Iranian Red Crescent medical journal · 2015Article
- Measuring progress in global health.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2014Article
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Abstract
Initial optimism that DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) would have a dramatic effect on TB incidence rates in developing countries has not been supported by the evidence accumulated so far. Indeed, where TB incidence rates have decreased, non-clinical socio-economic factors appear to have played at least as great a role. We postulate that in those settings with little or no decrease in TB incidence, there are likely to be common pathway blockages that interfere with the effectiveness of DOTS implementation as socio-economic factors evolve. Measuring socio-economic trends, as well as DOTS implementation, is important for understanding TB control and opens up the opportunity for broader public health engagement.
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