Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis
Records of WHO and International Union against TB and lung diseases have described the TB situation in Pakistan as one of the worst in the world. Karachi is the mega city of Pakistan and facing innumerable problems. The Government of Pakistan launched TB control program with the help of WHO all ov...
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| description | Records of WHO and International Union against TB and lung diseases have described the TB situation in Pakistan
as one of the worst in the world. Karachi is the mega city of Pakistan and facing innumerable problems. The
Government of Pakistan launched TB control program with the help of WHO all over Pakistan. The Karachi
authorities were facilitated with TB diagnosis equipments and financial support to existing public and private health
centres, and NGOs to enable them to conduct free TB tests of suspected patients. The purpose of the present study is
to use exploratory disease mapping to determine salient spatial patterns through GIS applications and demarcate the
concentration zones of tuberculosis patients in the study area. The spatial analysis had revealed that the number of
patients recorded at TB diagnosis centers of Karachi had gradually increased during the study period of 2010 to
2013 except in 2012 when there was a decrease in number. The spatial analysis had also indicated that the majority
of patients belonged to low income groups and resided in kacchi abadies. This spatio-temporal analysis suggests a
number of remedial measures the government can take to ameliorate the existing TB conditions in Karachi including
utilizing health GIS as an effective tool in risk area assessment, improving accessibility of patients and delimitation
of BMUs. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:78542016-12-14T06:45:26Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7854/ Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis Miandad, Muhammad Burke, Farkhunda Syed Nawaz-ul-Huda, Muhammad Azam, Records of WHO and International Union against TB and lung diseases have described the TB situation in Pakistan as one of the worst in the world. Karachi is the mega city of Pakistan and facing innumerable problems. The Government of Pakistan launched TB control program with the help of WHO all over Pakistan. The Karachi authorities were facilitated with TB diagnosis equipments and financial support to existing public and private health centres, and NGOs to enable them to conduct free TB tests of suspected patients. The purpose of the present study is to use exploratory disease mapping to determine salient spatial patterns through GIS applications and demarcate the concentration zones of tuberculosis patients in the study area. The spatial analysis had revealed that the number of patients recorded at TB diagnosis centers of Karachi had gradually increased during the study period of 2010 to 2013 except in 2012 when there was a decrease in number. The spatial analysis had also indicated that the majority of patients belonged to low income groups and resided in kacchi abadies. This spatio-temporal analysis suggests a number of remedial measures the government can take to ameliorate the existing TB conditions in Karachi including utilizing health GIS as an effective tool in risk area assessment, improving accessibility of patients and delimitation of BMUs. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7854/1/1x.geografia-okt14-Miandad-edam1.pdf Miandad, Muhammad and Burke, Farkhunda and Syed Nawaz-ul-Huda, and Muhammad Azam, (2014) Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 10 (5). pp. 1-8. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php |
| spellingShingle | Miandad, Muhammad Burke, Farkhunda Syed Nawaz-ul-Huda, Muhammad Azam, Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title | Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title_full | Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title_fullStr | Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title_short | Tuberculosis incidence in Karachi: A spatio-temporal analysis |
| title_sort | tuberculosis incidence in karachi: a spatio-temporal analysis |
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