Social Determinants of Infectious Diseases in South Asia

Table 3

Selection of studies demonstrating the influence of poverty on tuberculosis.

Study title	Reference	Result
Tuberculosis and poverty	Spence et al. [47]	Tuberculosis remains strongly associated with poverty
Tuberculosis and poverty: why are the poor at greater risk in India?	Oxlade et al. [48]	TB control strategies should be targeted to the poorest populations that are most at risk and should address the most important determinants of disease
Cash transfer and microfinance interventions can positively impact TB risk factors	Boccia et al. [49]	Cash transfer and microfinance interventions can positively impact TB risk factors
The Innovative Socioeconomic Interventions Against Tuberculosis (ISIAT) project: an operational assessment	Rocha et al. [50]	The Innovative Socioeconomic Interventions Against Tuberculosis (ISIAT) project: an operational assessment
The economic burden of tuberculosis care for patients and households in Africa: a systematic review	Ukwaja et al. [51]	The average patient's/household's prediagnostic costs for TB care were catastrophic
Addressing poverty through disease control programmes: examples from tuberculosis control in India	Kamineni et al. [52]	Further in-depth analysis as well as systems/policy/operations research exploring pro-poor initiatives, in particular examining service delivery synergies between existing poverty alleviation schemes and TB control programme, is essential
The association between household poverty rates and tuberculosis case notification rates; in Cambodia, 2010	Wong et al. [53]	There is a positive association between household poverty rates and sputum-positive TB