ArticlePublic health action2022
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health service use in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal Health Service Uptake and Perinatal Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Strengthening and utilizing response groups for emergencies flagship: a narrative review of the roll out process and lessons from the first year of implementation.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
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- Association of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease with COVID-19 in Africa: Scoping Review Protocol.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- The Pandemic-Related Factors Associated with Emergency Department Visits in Portugal throughout Two Years of the Pandemic: A Retrospective Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 impacts on healthcare access in sub-Saharan Africa: an overview.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2023Article
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Abstract
settingSix hospitals in four sub-Saharan African countries.
objectiveTo examine the indirect effects of COVID-19 on health service utilisation and to explore the risk of bias in studies on prediction models.
designMonthly data were analysed using interrupted time-series modelling. We used linear mixed-effect models for the analysis of antenatal care visits, institutional deliveries, vaccinations, outpatient visits and hospital admissions, and generalised linear mixed-effect models for hospital mortality.
resultsDuring 2018-2020, the six hospitals recorded a total of 57,075 antenatal care visits, 38,706 institutional deliveries, 312,961 vaccinations, 605,925 out-patient visits and 143,915 hospital admissions. The COVID-19 period was associated with decreases in vacci-nations (- 575 vaccinations,
conclusionsThe pandemic resulted in a reduction in health service utilisation. The decreases were less than anticipated from modelling studies.
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