Strategic analysis of tuberculosis prevention and control actions in Brazil and Ethiopia: one size fits all?
| Autor: | Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos, Suzanne M. Wilson, Gisela Cordeiro Pereira Cardoso, Wuleta Lemma, Kifle Woldemichael, Yibeltal Kiflie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics Health (social science) Tuberculosis Control (management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine 030505 public health business.industry Tuberculosis prevention Public health Health Policy Professional development Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Monitoring and evaluation medicine.disease language.human_language language Ethiopia Portuguese 0305 other medical science business Strategic analysis Brazil |
| Zdroj: | International journal of public health. 62(2) |
| ISSN: | 1661-8564 |
| Popis: | This study aimed at conducting a strategic analysis of Tuberculosis prevention and control actions in Brazil and Ethiopia, looking at the potential of directly observed treatment short-course strategy (DOTS) and community DOTS in both countries. Literature review was conducted using PubMed, Medline-Ovid, EMBASE, and SCIELO databases. The reviewed terms were Tuberculosis, prevention and control and Brazil (or Brasil) or Ethiopia (or Etiopia). Study’s eligibility included article’s title or abstract in English or Portuguese and comprised the following Tuberculosis policy components: management; care; communication, and social mobilization; training and professional development; epidemiological surveillance, and monitoring and evaluation. The study identified, compared, and analyzed the challenges and recommendations reported in the literature. Although DOTS was not able to address all the difficulties regarding Tuberculosis control and prevention, it contributes to overcome challenges identified in the literature review. Decentralizing DOTS in Ethiopia and implementing DOTS in Brazil were key recommendations to overcome problems of access and treatment default. DOTS and Community DOTS cannot solve every identified Tuberculosis challenge, but together they complement each other. Both strategies need to be tailored to site’s challenges. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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