A cohort study analyzing the impact of socioeconomic and spatial characteristics alongside treatment regimens on the environmental-health outcomes of the MDR-TB treatment in Pakistan

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 28; no. 26; pp. 34953 - 34967
• Main Authors: Arif, Ankasha, Ahmad, Eatzaz, Khan, Farzana Naheed, Fatima, Razia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Ambulatory care; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Cohort analysis; cohort studies; Drug resistance; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Emergency medical services; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental conditions; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Expenditures; health education; hospitals; Impact analysis; males; Multidrug resistance; multiple drug resistance; Pakistan; Patients; pollution; public policy; Research Article; Social protection; Statistical models; Survival; Survival analysis; travel; Tuberculosis; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Pakistan; Policy; Survival analysis; I18; Spatial; Socio-economic; C14; MDR-TB; Environmental-health outcome; C81; I28

This study identifies and analyzes a number of factors that correlate with the environmental-health outcome of multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment in Pakistan. Survival analysis is carried out by applying the multivariable Cox Proportional Hazard model on secondary data of 369 pati...