TB financing in East Europe promotes unnecessary hospital admissions: the case of Armenia

Laura Gillini; Karapet Davtyan; Hayk Davtyan; Armen Hayrapetyan; Sergey Khachatryan; Rosella Centis; Lia D’Ambrosio; Masoud Dara; Giovanni Battista Migliori; Giovanni Sotgiu

doi:10.3855/jidc.3396

TB financing in East Europe promotes unnecessary hospital admissions: the case of Armenia

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Laura Gillini Health system strengthening Armenia HSSTAR Abt/USAID grantee Armenia
Karapet Davtyan National Tuberculosis Control office, Armenia
Hayk Davtyan Monitoring and Evaluation department of national TB Control office, Armenia
Armen Hayrapetyan NTP, Armenia
Sergey Khachatryan Ministry of Health, Armenia
Rosella Centis World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy
Lia D’Ambrosio World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy
Masoud Dara World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Giovanni Battista Migliori World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy
Giovanni Sotgiu Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.3396

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tuberculosis, MDR-TB, XDR-TB, Armenia, financing

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2013-03-14

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Gillini L, Davtyan K, Davtyan H, Hayrapetyan A, Khachatryan S, Centis R, D’Ambrosio L, Dara M, Migliori GB, Sotgiu G (2013) TB financing in East Europe promotes unnecessary hospital admissions: the case of Armenia. J Infect Dev Ctries 7:289–292. doi: 10.3855/jidc.3396

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Vol. 7 No. 03: March 2013

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