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ReviewLancet (London, England)2015

Stopping tuberculosis: a biosocial model for sustainable development.

Katrina F Ortblad, Joshua A Salomon, Till Bärnighausen, Rifat Atun

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Katrina F OrtbladDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Joshua A SalomonDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Till BärnighausenDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, South Africa.
Rifat AtunDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: ratun@hsph.harvard.edu.

Funding

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PREDICTORS OF PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONP01AG041710 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI Julia Katherine Rohr · 2013 to 2026
$37.3M
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and BiodefenseT32AI007535 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI GRAD, YONATAN H, MURRAY, MEGAN B · 1998 to 2025
$4.8M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007535NIA NIH HHS 1P01AG041710-01NIA NIH HHS P01 AG041710Wellcome Trust 097410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis transmission and progression are largely driven by social factors such as poor living conditions and poor nutrition. Increased standards of living and social approaches helped to decrease the burden of tuberculosis before the introduction of chemotherapy in the 1940s. Since then, management of tuberculosis has been largely biomedical. More funding for tuberculosis since 2000, coinciding with the Millennium Development Goals, has yielded progress in tuberculosis mortality but smaller reductions in incidence, which continues to pose a risk to sustainable development, especially in poor and susceptible populations. These at-risk populations need accelerated progress to end tuberculosis as resolved by the World Health Assembly in 2015. Effectively addressing the worldwide tuberculosis burden will need not only enhancement of biomedical approaches but also rebuilding of the social approaches of the past. To combine a biosocial approach, underpinned by social, economic, and environmental actions, with new treatments, new diagnostics, and universal health coverage, will need multisectoral coordination and action involving the health and other governmental sectors, as well as participation of the civil society, and especially the poor and susceptible populations. A biosocial approach to stopping tuberculosis will not only target morbidity and mortality from disease but would also contribute substantially to poverty alleviation and sustainable development that promises to meet the needs of the present, especially the poor, and provide them and subsequent generations an opportunity for a better future.

Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesModels, TheoreticalGlobal HealthHumansNutritional StatusRisk FactorsSocial EnvironmentSocioeconomic FactorsTuberculosis

Identifiers

PMID26515678
PMCPMC6349425

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