Active case finding among marginalised and vulnerable populations reduces catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis diagnosis

• Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade (Author), Vivek Gupta (Author), Srinath Satyanarayana (Author), Atul Kharate (Author), K.N. Sahai (Author), Lakshmi Murali (Author), Sanjeev Kamble (Author), Madhav Deshpande (Author), Naresh Kumar (Author), Sunil Kumar (Author), Prabhat Pandey (Author), U.N. Bajpai (Author), Jaya Prasad Tripathy (Author), Soundappan Kathirvel (Author), Sripriya Pandurangan (Author), Subrat Mohanty (Author), Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule (Author), Karuna D. Sagili (Author), Banuru Muralidhara Prasad (Author), Sudhi Nath (Author), Priyanka Singh (Author), Kamlesh Singh (Author), Ramesh Singh (Author), Gurukartick Jayaraman (Author), P. Rajeswaran (Author), Binod Kumar Srivastava (Author), Moumita Biswas (Author), Gayadhar Mallick (Author), Om Prakash Bera (Author), A. James Jeyakumar Jaisingh (Author), Ali Jafar Naqvi (Author), Prafulla Verma (Author), Mohammed Salauddin Ansari (Author), Prafulla C. Mishra (Author), G. Sumesh (Author), Sanjeeb Barik (Author), Vijesh Mathew (Author), Manas Ranjan Singh Lohar (Author), Chandrashekhar S. Gaurkhede (Author), Ganesh Parate (Author), Sharifa Yasin Bale (Author), Ishwar Koli (Author), Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj (Author), G. Venkatraman (Author), K. Sathiyanarayanan (Author), Jinesh Lal (Author), Ashwini Kumar Sharma (Author), Raghuram Rao (Author), Ajay M.V. Kumar (Author), Sarabjit Singh Chadha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: There is limited evidence on whether active case finding (ACF) among marginalised and vulnerable populations mitigates the financial burden during tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. Objectives: To determine the effect of ACF among marginalised and vulnerable populations on prevalence and inequ...