TB notification rates across parliamentary constituencies in India: a step towards data-driven political engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

National averages obscure geographic variation in program performance. We determined Parliamentary Constituency (PC)-wise estimates of TB notification to guide political engagement.

Methods

We extracted district-level TB notification data from the 2018 annual TB report. We derived PC-level estimates by building a 'cross-walk' between districts and PCs using boundary shapefiles. We described the spatial distribution of the PC-wise estimates of Total Notification Rate and percentage of Private Sector Notification.

Results

The median PC-wise Total Notification Rate was 126.24/100 000 (IQR: 94.86/100 000, 162.22/100 000). The median PC-wise Percentage Private Sector Notification was 18.03% (IQR: 9.56%, 26.84%). Only 16 (2.94%) PCs met the target of 50% private s

SUBMITTER: Pardeshi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8360195 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature