1. Patient-Pathway Analysis of Tuberculosis Services in Cameroon
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Albert Kuate Kuate, Ellen M. H. Mitchell, Alison Wringe, Yvonne Waindim, Collins N. Titahong, Gideon N. Ayongwa, Melissa Sander, Dubliss Nguafack, Irene Adeline Goupeyou Wandji, and Vincent Mbassa
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Government ,Surveillance data ,Tuberculosis ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Poverty ,patient-pathway analysis (PPA) ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,tuberculosis ,care-seeking ,Cameroon ,Private sector ,Pathway analysis ,medicine.disease ,Patient pathway ,Article ,Infectious Diseases ,Health facility ,Environmental health ,medicine ,Medicine ,Business - Abstract
In Cameroon, in 2019, tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage was estimated at 53%, indicating that almost half of all people sick with TB were not diagnosed or linked to care. To inform strategies to improve access to TB services, we conducted an evaluation of the alignment between patient-initiated care-seeking behavior and spatial and institutional allocation of TB services. Data sources included the Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (2018), the Health Facility List (2017), and routinely collected TB surveillance data. Data visualization was performed in Tableau and QGIS. The pathway analysis showed that only an estimated 9% of people attended a health facility providing TB services at initial care-seeking, with access varying from
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- 2021
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