Planning, implementing, and evaluating Hepatitis C virus elimination via collaborative community-based care cascade: age-period-cohort model for estimating demand from antecedent anti-HCV survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Estimating the demand for HCV care cascade plays an important role in planning, monitoring, and assessing the performance of introducing a new community-based hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination program but such an analytic and systematic approach has been barley addressed.

Methods

A new collaborative care program for HCV elimination in the Changhua Community of Taiwan has been offered to a total of 895,353 residents since 2018. To grasp the variation of demand for HCV care cascade across demographic and geographic features in the planning stage, we applied the age-period-cohort spatial model to the antecedent anti-HCV survey enrolling 123,617 participants aged 30 years or older between 2005 and 2018. Based on this precise denominator, we then employed a "before-a

SUBMITTER: Lin TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11014808 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature