Japan's national tuberculosis control strategies with economic considerations.

Management Strategies to Control the COVID-19 Crisis in Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative tuberculosis management strategies in South Africa--implications for policy.

OBJECTIVE To conduct an economic analysis of the Hlabisa community-based directly observed therapy management strategy for tuberculosis and to project costs of three alternative strategies. SETTING Hlabisa health district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. METHODS An economic analysis comparing the current tuberculosis management strategy in Hlabisa with three alternative strategies (the Hlabisa...

Coronavirus Pandemic; From Human Rights Considerations to Citizenship Requirements

Coronavirus pandemic as a global health challenge, has had many political, economic, legal, social and cultural consequences in the realm of national societies and internationally. The most important concerns in the legal field are the human rights situation in the international system and civil rights in the field of national systems. These concerns are mainly related to the restriction of the...

Identifying components for programmatic latent tuberculosis infection control in the European Union

Individuals with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are the reservoir of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a population and as long as this reservoir exists, elimination of tuberculosis (TB) will not be feasible. In 2013, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) started an assessment of benefits and risks of introducing programmatic LTBI control, with the aim of providing gui...

Entrenching the Yoshida Defense Doctrine: Three Techniques for Institutionalization

Japan's level of defense expenditure relative to tbe size of its economy bas long been uniquely low among the major industrialized countries. As of 1995, Japan's expenditures stood at 0.96 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).' Even adding to this tbe approximately 0.3 percent of GDP devoted to pensions for retired personnel, the level of spending is considerably less than that of major West...