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Thorax ; 79(1): 86-89, 2023 12 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37344177

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High rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine suggest screening is necessary to mitigate public health hazards for host populations. A pathway was implemented in Wales and data prospectively collected Between 8 April and 21 December 2022. Of 5425 Ukrainian arrivals, notifications were received by TB teams on 2395 (44%) of whom 1955 (82%) were screened. The refugees were young (median age 30, IQR 14-41), and predominantly female (66.1%). Interferon- gamma release assay (IGRA) tests were positive in 112 (6.5%). One Case of active tuberculosis was identified (0.05%). Our data supports European guidelines that routine screening of this population is not recommended, but we remain uncertain as to the risks of this population going forwards.


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Tuberculose Latente , Refugiados , Tuberculose Resistente a Múltiplos Medicamentos , Humanos , Feminino , Adulto , Masculino , Tuberculose Latente/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Latente/epidemiologia , Teste Tuberculínico , País de Gales/epidemiologia , Testes de Liberação de Interferon-gama , Tuberculose Resistente a Múltiplos Medicamentos/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Resistente a Múltiplos Medicamentos/epidemiologia , Programas de Rastreamento
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Int J Equity Health ; 20(1): 219, 2021 10 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34620188

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BACKGROUND: It is broadly accepted that poverty is associated with poor health, and the health impact of poverty has been explored in numerous high-income country settings. There is a large and growing body of evidence of the role that primary care practitioners can play in identifying poverty as a health determinant, and in interventions to address it. PURPOSE OF STUDY: This study maps the published peer-reviewed and grey literature on primary care setting interventions to address poverty in high-income countries in order to identify key concepts and gaps in the research. This scoping review seeks to map the tools in use to identify and address patients' economic needs; describe the key types of primary care-based interventions; and examine barriers and facilitators to successful implementation. METHODS: Using a scoping review methodology, we searched five databases, the grey literature and the reference lists of relevant studies to identify studies on interventions to address the economic needs-related social determinants of health that occur in primary health care delivery settings, in high-income countries. Findings were synthesized narratively, and examined using thematic analysis, according to iteratively identified themes. RESULTS: Two hundred and fourteen papers were included in the review and fell into two broad categories of description and evaluation: screening tools, and economic needs-specific interventions. Primary care-based interventions that aim to address patients' financial needs operate at all levels, from passive sociodemographic data collection upon patient registration, through referral to external services, to direct intervention in addressing patients' income needs. CONCLUSION: Tools and processes to identify and address patients' economic social needs range from those tailored to individual health practices, or addressing one specific dimension of need, to wide-ranging protocols. Primary care-based interventions to address income needs operate at all levels, from passive sociodemographic data collection, through referral to external services, to direct intervention. Measuring success has proven challenging. The decision to undertake this work requires courage on the part of health care providers because it can be difficult, time-consuming and complex. However, it is often appreciated by patients, even when the scope of action available to health care providers is quite narrow.


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Pobreza , Atenção Primária à Saúde , Humanos
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Front Med (Lausanne) ; 7: 457, 2020.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32974367

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National regulatory authorities (NRAs) are the gatekeepers of the supply chain of medical products, and they have a mandate to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines, vaccines, blood, and blood products, medical devices, including diagnostics and traditional, or herbal medicines. However, the majority of the world's regulators are still struggling to reach a level of maturity, whereby they have a stable, well-functioning and integrated regulatory system. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) as part of its five-step capacity building program to assist NRAs, using the tool, they can benchmark their own strengths and areas of weakness, and then engage in a formal benchmarking process together with WHO and international experts in order to formulate an effective and workable institutional development plan. The GBT is comprehensive across the entire product life cycle and allows benchmarking to be customized to the needs of the NRA. It has evolved from decades of experience using a variety of benchmarking tools, within WHO and other stakeholder organizations. By the end of December 2019, 26 countries had undergone formal benchmarking, and a further 54 countries had used the GBT to conduct self-benchmarking exercises assisted by WHO.

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BMJ ; 370: m3340, 2020 08 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32847834
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BMJ ; 369: m1880, 2020 May 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32393467
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BMJ ; 368: m236, 2020 Jan 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31959587
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BMJ ; 368: m351, 2020 Jan 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31996342
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BMJ ; 368: m349, 2020 Jan 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31996345
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BMJ ; 366: l5027, 2019 Aug 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31383714
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BMJ ; 366: l5136, 2019 Aug 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31409600
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BMJ ; 357: j2970, 2017 06 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28630096
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