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Unified Mobile App for Streamlining Verbal Autopsy and Cause of Death Assignment in India: Design and Development Study.
JMIR Form Res
January 2025
ICMR-National Institute for Research in Digital Health and Data Science, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029, India, 91 7840870009.
Background: Verbal autopsy (VA) has been a crucial tool in ascertaining population-level cause of death (COD) estimates, specifically in countries where medical certification of COD is relatively limited. The World Health Organization has released an updated instrument (Verbal Autopsy Instrument 2022) that supports electronic data collection methods along with analytical software for assigning COD. This questionnaire encompasses the primary signs and symptoms associated with prevalent diseases across all age groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProportions and determinants of successful tuberculosis treatment among tuberculosis patients with comorbidity registered in National Tuberculosis Registry in Negeri Sembilan from year 2018-2023.
Med J Malaysia
January 2025
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health Medicine, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major global health challenges and concerns. Despite the availability of effective treatment in Malaysia, it remained a consistently high notification rate of TB cases. The objective of this study was to determine the proportion of successful TB treatment outcomes and its determinants among TB with comorbidities patients in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA comparative analysis of two national tuberculosis reporting systems and their impact on tuberculosis case notification in Uganda.
Afr Health Sci
December 2023
The National TB and Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
Background: Before 2018, the use of parallel tuberculosis (TB) reporting systems was resource intensive with duplication of efforts and hence the need to select one that contributed to better TB case notification at the National TB and Leprosy Program (NLTP) in Uganda. We sought to analyse the difference in reporting rates between the two systems in order to improve NTLP TB case notification rates, logistics management, and planning for better health service delivery initiatives.
Methods: We conducted a comparative study to assess TB case notification between the web-based DHIS2 and the district TB supervisor-led health management information system between January 2016 to December 2017.
Appraising perception, accessibility and uptake of DAT among patients with TB.
Public Health Action
June 2024
National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer Control Programme, Abuja, Nigeria.
Article Synopsis
- - Poor adherence to TB treatment is a major public health challenge, and Digital Adherence Technologies (DATs) offer a more patient-centered and less resource-intensive alternative to traditional directly observed treatment methods.
- - In a study in Nigeria, most TB patients owned personal phones and had access to airtime and internet, with 83.7% stating that phone reminders were helpful in remembering to take their medication.
- - Overall, DATs were found to be acceptable among patients, but successful implementation must tackle access issues, technical difficulties, and avoid extra costs for patients.
Designing an operational research TB training program in Zambia.
Public Health Action
March 2024
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Eradicate TB Project, Lusaka.
Background: The USAID-funded Eradicate TB Project (ETB) partnered with the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (NTLP) to establish an operational research (OR) training program in order to generate local evidence to enhance TB care in Zambia.
Method: Between 2017 and 2021, healthcare workers (HCWs) from district teams underwent two 10-day intensive training sessions. The program evolved to include a competitive application process and an additional primer workshop on developing feasible research questions.
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