The socioeconomic impact of tuberculosis on children and adolescents: a scoping review and conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis (TB) has been repeatedly shown to have socioeconomic impacts in both individual-level and ecological studies; however, much less is known about this effect among children and adolescents and the extent to which being affected by TB during childhood and adolescence can have life-course implications. This paper describes the results of the development of a conceptual framework and scoping review to review the evidence on the short- and long-term socioeconomic impact of tuberculosis on children and adolescents.

Objectives

To increase knowledge of the socioeconomic impact of TB on children and adolescents.

Methods

We developed a conceptual framework of the socioeconomic impact of TB on children and adolescents, and used scoping review methods to se

SUBMITTER: Atkins S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9686126 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature