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| Title |
Cash transfers to enhance TB control: lessons from the HIV response
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-018-5962-z |
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| Authors |
William E. Rudgard, Daniel J. Carter, James Scuffell, Lucie D. Cluver, Nicole Fraser-Hurt, Delia Boccia |
| Abstract |
The World Health Organization prioritises a more holistic global response to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030. Based on experiences in the HIV response, social protection, and in particular cash transfers, show promise for contributing to this. Currently, individual-level evidence for the potential of cash transfers to prevent TB by addressing the structural social determinants of disease is lacking. To identify priority actions for the TB research agenda, we appraised efforts by the HIV response to establish the role of cash transfers in preventing HIV infection. The HIV response has evaluated the effects of cash transfers on risky sexual behaviours and HIV incidence. Work has also evaluated the added effects of supplementing cash transfers with psychosocial support. The HIV response has focused research on populations with disproportionate HIV risk, and used a mix of explanatory evaluations, which use ideal conditions, and pragmatic evaluations, which use operational conditions, to generate evidence that is both causally valid and applicable to the real world. It has always collaborated with multiple stakeholders in funding and evaluating projects. Learning from the HIV response, priority actions for the TB response should be to investigate the effect of cash transfers on intermediary social determinants of active TB disease, and TB incidence, as well as the added effects of supplementing cash transfers with psychosocial support. Work should be focused on key groups in high burden settings, and look to build a combination of explanatory and pragmatic evidence to inform policy decisions in this field. To achieve this, there is an urgent need to facilitate collaborations between groups interested in evaluating the impact of cash transfers on TB risk. The HIV response highlights several priority actions necessary for the TB response to establish the potential of cash transfers to prevent TB by addresing the structural social determinants of disease. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 25% |
| United States | 5 | 18% |
| Brazil | 2 | 7% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Malawi | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 8 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 17 | 61% |
| Scientists | 7 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 96 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 16% |
| Unknown | 44 | 46% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 11% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 4 | 4% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 42 | 44% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 September 2018.
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#1,561,516
of 25,579,912 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,785
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#31,995
of 342,903 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#33
of 287 outputs
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