作者
Suman Chandra Gurung, Kritika Dixit, Bhola Rai, Maxine Caws, Puskar Raj Paudel, Raghu Dhital, Shraddha Acharya, Gangaram Budhathoki, Deepak Malla, Jens W Levy, Job van Rest, Knut Lönnroth, Kerri Viney, Andrew Ramsay, Tom Wingfield, Buddha Basnyat, Anil Thapa, Bertie Squire, Duolao Wang, Gokul Mishra, Kashim Shah, Anil Shrestha, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha
发表日期
2019/12/1
期刊
Infectious diseases of poverty
卷号
8
期号
06
页码范围
61-75
出版商
Editorial Office of Infectious Diseases of Poverty, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
简介
Background
The World Health Organization (WHO) End TB Strategy has established a milestone to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB) - affected households facing catastrophic costs to zero by 2020. The role of active case finding (ACF) in reducing patient costs has not been determined globally. This study therefore aimed to compare costs incurred by TB patients diagnosed through ACF and passive case finding (PCF), and to determine the prevalence and intensity of patient-incurred catastrophic costs in Nepal.
Methods
The study was conducted in two districts of Nepal: Bardiya and Pyuthan (Province No. 5) between June and August 2018. One hundred patients were included in this study in a 1:1 ratio (PCF: ACF, 25 consecutive ACF and 25 consecutive PCF patients in each district). The WHO TB patient costing tool was applied to collect information from patients or a member of their family regarding indirect …
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