GEOG 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sputum Culture, Absenteeism
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Patients were to be observed taking their medications to ensure adherence to the treatment regime. Dots protocols called for retreatment with first line therapy even if the patients were found to have drug-resistant disease. Mdrtb too expensive to treat in poor countries, detracts attention and resources: socios en salud is the name of partners in health (the organization that paul. Farmer and colleagues run in various countries throughout the world) in peru. Explain why socios en salud implemented dots-plus and explain what dots- Dots-plus: added the use of second-line medications, monitoring with sputum culture, drug-susceptibility testing, and directly observed individual therapy to the existing dots regimine. States have responsibility for helath service delivery-variation among states led to wide disparities. Initially, health care provided through a public sector model. 1990s, india opens up , growth of private sector"s role in healthcare. Should raise total government expenditures on health, 1% gdp. Changes in the populations or changes in patterns of disease.
