ArticleGlobal health action2022
Geographic accessibility to childhood tuberculosis care in Pakistan.
Article in Global health action, 2022. 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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- Evaluating tuberculosis service accessibility in Pakistan by analyzing population movement patterns from telecom mobility and survey data.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Age and sex differences in paediatric tuberculosis care for child contacts.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- Incidence of Dengue Fever in Pakistan.PloS one · 2026Article
- Multidrug-Resistant TB (MDR-TB) and Extensively Drug-Resistant TB (XDR-TB) Among Children: Where We Stand Now.Cureus · 2023Review
- COVID-19 vaccination acceptance in underserved urban areas of Islamabad and Rawalpindi: results from a cross-sectional survey.BMC public health · 2022Article
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundTuberculosis (TB) in children is difficult to detect and often needs specialists to diagnose; the health system is supposed to refer to higher level of health care when diagnosis is not settled in a sick child. In Pakistan, the primary health care level can usually not diagnose childhood TB and will refer to a paediatricians working at a secondary or tertiary care hospital. We aimed to determine the health services access to child TB services in Pakistan.
objectiveWe aimed to determine the geographical access to child TB services in Pakistan.
methodWe used geospatial analysis to calculate the distance from the nearest public health facility to settlements, using qGIS, as well as population living within the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommended 5-km distance.
resultAt primary health care level, 14.1% of facilities report child TB cases to national tuberculosis program and 74% of the population had geographical access to general primary health care within 5-km radius. To secondary- and tertiary-level health care, 33.5% of the population had geographical access within 5-km radius. The average distance from a facility for diagnosis of childhood TB was 26.3 km from all settlement to the nearest child TB sites. The population of one province (Balochistan) had longer distances to health care services.
conclusionWith fairly good coverage of primary health care but lower coverage of specialist care for childhood TB, the health system depends heavily on a good referral system from the communities.
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