Providing financial incentives to rural-to-urban tuberculosis migrants in Shanghai: an intervention study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial issues are major barriers for rural-to-urban migrants accessing tuberculosis (TB) care in China. This paper discusses the effectiveness of providing financial incentives to migrant TB patients (with a focus on poor migrants in one district of Shanghai using treatment completion and default rates), the effect of financial incentives in terms of reducing the TB patient cost, and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of the intervention.

Results

Ninety and ninety-three migrant TB patients were registered in the intervention and control districts respectively. TB treatment completion rates significantly improved by 11% (from 78% to 89%) in the intervention district, compared with only a 3% increase (from 73% to 76%) in the control district (P = 0.03). Def

SUBMITTER: Wei X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710084 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature