Patient-pathway analysis of tuberculosis services in Cameroon

Collins N. Titahong; Gideon N. Ayongwa; Yvonne Waindim; Dubliss Nguafack; Albert Kuate Kuate; Irene Adeline Goupeyou Wandji; Alison Wringe; Vincent Mbassa; Melissa S. Sander; Ellen M. H. Mitchell

doi:10.3390/tropicalmed6040171

Patient-pathway analysis of tuberculosis services in Cameroon

Collins N. Titahong, Gideon N. Ayongwa, Yvonne Waindim, Dubliss Nguafack, Albert Kuate Kuate, Irene Adeline Goupeyou Wandji, Alison Wringe, Vincent Mbassa, Melissa S. Sander, Ellen M. H. Mitchell

Mycobacterial Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Abstract

In Cameroon, in 2019, tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage was estimated at 53%, indicating that almost half of all people sick with TB were not diagnosed or linked to care. To inform strategies to improve access to TB services, we conducted an evaluation of the alignment between patient-initiated care-seeking behavior and spatial and institutional allocation of TB services. Data sources included the Cameroon Demographic and Health Survey (2018), the Health Facility List (2017), and routinely collected TB surveillance data. Data visualization was performed in Tableau and QGIS. The pathway analysis showed that only an estimated 9% of people attended a health facility providing TB services at initial care-seeking, with access varying from

Original language	English
Article number	171
Journal	Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume	6
Issue number	4
Number of pages	10
ISSN	2414-6366
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6040171
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

tuberculosis
patient-pathway analysis (PPA)
care-seeking
Cameroon
ENGAGEMENT
AMBITION
INFORM
CARE

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Patient-pathway analysis of tuberculosis services in Cameroon. / Titahong, Collins N.; Ayongwa, Gideon N.; Waindim, Yvonne; Nguafack, Dubliss; Kuate, Albert Kuate; Wandji, Irene Adeline Goupeyou; Wringe, Alison; Mbassa, Vincent; Sander, Melissa S.; Mitchell, Ellen M. H.

In: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol. 6, No. 4, 171, 2021.

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