scholarly journals Age of First Infection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Dhaka Metropolitan City

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahida Gulshan ◽  
Subrina Farah
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Control Program ◽  
P Value ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Program ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Chest Disease ◽  
Occupational Activities ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
Median Test ◽  
Exponential Regression Model

This study aims to determine the age of first infection of pulmonary tuberculosis in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Registered cases at an arbitrarily selected chest disease clinic in Dhaka under the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) of Bangladesh was considered for this study. From the study of the sample of 303 cases, it was revealed that women are more likely to be affected by Tuberculosis bacilli at earlier ages as compared to men in Dhaka. Mann Whitney Median test showed a significant difference between the median age of first infection of male and female (p-value < 0.001). In addition it is also observed that there is a significant difference (p-value<0.05) between the median age of first infection between people with in-house occupational activities and individuals with outgoing occupational activities where outgoing people are infected by Tuberculosis bacilli at later ages than in-house workers. An exponential regression model shows significant effect of the variables sex and place of occupational activities on the age of first infection (p-value < 0.05). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/dujs.v62i1.21961 Dhaka Univ. J. Sci. 62(1): 49-53, 2014 (January)

scholarly journals Exploring the mechanisms of collaboration between the Tuberculosis and Diabetes Programs for the control of TB-DM Comorbidity in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Suhuyini Salifu ◽  
Khumbulani W. Hlongwana
Keyword(s):  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Local Health ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Program ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
Local Health Facility ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
And Control ◽  
Non Communicable Disease

Abstract Objectives To explore the mechanisms of collaboration between the stakeholders, including National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) and the Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Program (NCDCP) at the national, regional, and local (health facility) levels of the health care system in Ghana. This is one of the objectives in a study on the “Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation of the Collaborative Framework for the Care and Control of Tuberculosis and Diabetes in Ghana” Results The data analysis revealed 4 key themes. These were (1) Increased support for communicable diseases (CDs) compared to stagnant support for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), (2) Donor support, (3) Poor collaboration between NTP and NCDCP, and (4) Low Tuberculosis-Diabetes Mellitus (TB-DM) case detection.

scholarly journals Factors that influence the recovery of TB patients using Cox proportional hazard regression

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ZURNILA MARLI KESUMA ◽  
HIZIR SOFYAN ◽  
LATIFAH RAHAYU ◽  
WARDATUL JANNAH
Keyword(s):  
Control Program ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Cure Rate ◽  
Hazard Regression ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazard ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Program ◽  
Record Data ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazard Regression

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease which is one of the biggest health problems in the world, including Indonesia. The government, through the National Tuberculosis Control program, has made various efforts to control tuberculosis. However, this problem was exacerbated by the dramatic increase in the incidence of tuberculosis. This study aimed to determine the Cox proportional hazard regression model and the factors that affect the cure rate of TB patients. We used medical record data for inpatient TB patients for the period July-December 2017 at dr. Zainoel Abidin Hospital. The results showed that with α = 0.1, the factors that influenced the recovery of TB patients were the type of cough, the symptoms of bloody cough and symptoms of sweating at night.  There were 33.93% of patients who did not work. This category included students, domestic helpers, and those who did not work until they suffered from tuberculosis and were treated at dr. Zainoel Abidin Hospital. The hazard ratio (failure ratio) showed that the tendency or cure rate for TB patients who did not experience cough symptoms was 70% greater than patients who experienced phlegm cough symptoms. The cure rate for TB patients who experienced coughing up blood symptoms was 53% greater than patients without these symptoms. The cure rate for TB patients who experienced  symptoms of sweating at night was 54% greater than patients who did not sweat at night.

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal dynamics of tuberculosis in East Hararge Zone, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-633
Author(s):  
Aboma Temesgen Sebu ◽  
Kasahun Takele Genati ◽  
Daniel Biftu Bekalo ◽  
Teshome Kebede Deressa
Keyword(s):  
Control Program ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Notification Rate ◽  
Relative Risks ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Program ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Tuberculosis Disease ◽  
Case Notification

Abstract Tuberculosis disease burden remains a fundamental global public health concern for decades. The disease may not uniformly distributed with certain geographical areas recording higher notification rate than others. However, the Ethiopian national TB control program does not provide services based on those areas with the greatest notifications but rather on a uniform strategy. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the spatial distribution and presence of the spatio-temporal clustering of the disease in different geographic settings over 8 years in the East Hararge Zone. A retrospective space-time and spatial analysis were carried out at districts of East Hararghe zone based on a total of 34,564 notified TB cases during the study period. The study identified different case notification rate over districts and clustering effects for the purely spatial and spatiotemporal with different estimated relative risks. The study recommends national tuberculosis control program to give attention to highly observed case notification rates specially Babile, Haramaya and Jarso districs of East Hararge Zone to have effective TB intervention in the study area.

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