Spatial distribution and accessibility to public sector tertiary care teaching hospitals: case study from Pakistan.

Background: Public sector provision of health care services is important for addressing health morbidity and mortality burden for population health in developing countries like Pakistan. Physical accessibility and spatial distribution of healthcare facilities affect their utilization for improving population health.

Aims: This study aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of five public sector, tertiary care, teaching, general hospitals in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

Spatial Cluster Analysis Of New And Relapsed Cases Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis By District: Pakistan 2015.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in Pakistan. There are no studies in Pakistan on TB disease mapping and spatial analysis at the country level. This study was conducted to map and identify clusters of TB incidence rates at the district level for all provinces of Pakistan, including Islamabad for all new and relapsed cases of pulmonary TB, for the year 2015.

Spatial Distribution and Accessibility to Public Sector Tertiary Care Teaching General Hospitals: Tale of Two Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Districts - Peshawar and Abbottabad.

Effective utilisation of healthcare facilities is determined by spatial and non-spatial factors, including their spatial distribution and physical accessibility. Public sector plays an important role in the provision of healthcare services for improving health in developing countries like Pakistan. We analysed the spatial distribution and accessibility to public sector tertiary care teaching and general hospitals in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) districts of Abbottabad and Peshawar.

Neonates--a neglected paediatric age group.

Objective: To determine a change in the mortality of admitted children (neonates and children above 28 days of age to less than 17 years) and to document a change in the causes of neonatal admissions along with their mortality during a four year period.

Methods: Conducted in Pediatric Unit-I, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur. The data of all the children admitted from 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2008 was analyzed.

Comparison of an internally controlled, large-volume LightCycler assay for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical samples with the COBAS AMPLICOR assay.

We present a sensitive and specific assay for reliable and flexible detection of members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in clinical samples. This real-time PCR assay, which uses the LightCycler 2.0 instrument and 100-mul glass capillaries, can provide a result within 1 h after DNA extraction.