Geographic accessibility to health facilities predicts uptake of community-based tuberculosis screening in an urban setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Annually, more than 30% of individuals with tuberculosis (TB) remain undiagnosed. We aimed to assess whether geographic accessibility measures can identify neighborhoods that would benefit from TB screening services targeted toward closing the diagnosis gap.

Methods

We used data from a community-based mobile TB screening program in Carabayllo district, Lima, Peru. We constructed four accessibility measures from the geographic center of neighborhoods to health facilities. We used logistic regression to assess the association between these measures and screening uptake in one's residential neighborhood versus elsewhere, with quasi-information criterion values to assess the association.

Results

We analyzed the screening locations for 25,000 Carabayllo resident

SUBMITTER: Jenkins HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9176313 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature