Critical determinants of the epilepsy treatment gap: a cross-national analysis in resource-limited settings.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurologic disorders worldwide. Our objective was to determine which economic, health care, neurology, and epilepsy-specific resources were associated with untreated epilepsy in resource-constrained settings.

Methods

A systematic review of the literature identified community-based studies in resource-constrained settings that calculated the epilepsy treatment gap, the proportion with untreated epilepsy, from prevalent active epilepsy cases. Economic, health care, neurology, and epilepsy-specific resources were taken from existing datasets. Poisson regression models with jackknifed standard errors were used to create bivariate and multivariate models comparing the association between treatment status and economic and health r

SUBMITTER: Meyer AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3809906 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature