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Antibiotic Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Infections Among Children in Rural China: a Cross-Sectional Study of Outpatient Prescriptions(Taylor & Francis, 2017-05-02)Overuse of antibiotics contributes to the development of antimicrobial resistance.
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Catastrophic costs of tuberculosis care: a mixed methods study from Puducherry, India(Taylor & Francis Open, 2018)The average expenditure incurred by patients in low- and middle-income countries towards diagnosis and treatment of TB ranges from $55 to $8198. This out-of-pocket expenditure leads to impoverishment of households. One of the three main targets of the End TB Strategy (2016-2035) is that no TB-affected household suffers catastrophic costs due to TB. Study setting was free care under national tuberculosis program (NTP), Puducherry district, India.
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Does the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) continue to influence health policy and/or practice?(Taylor & Francis, 2018-08-01)The Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) is a successful model of integrated operational research and capacity building with about 90% of participants completing the training and publishing in scientific journals.
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Leprosy Trends at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai, India, From 2008 to 2015(Co-Action Publishing, 2016-11-23)Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, which contributes 60% of the global leprosy burden, faces some challenges to eliminate the disease, including active transmission in the community and delayed diagnosis of leprosy patients.
