Provision of prostate cancer services in Tanzania: perspectives from five tertiary hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to quality prostate cancer services remains a global challenge, particularly in Low- and Middle-Income countries. This is often due to weak health systems that struggle to meet the population's needs. The provision of quality health services to patients with prostate cancer requires a comprehensive approach involving multiple stakeholders and structural inputs. However, few studies have comprehensively assessed the relationship between these structural inputs and prostate cancer treatment outcomes. This study, therefore, aimed to determine the availability of selected structural inputs and descriptions of how they influence the provision of quality services to patients with prostate cancer in Tanzania.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study using an e

SUBMITTER: Nyongole O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11443861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature