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Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a significant impact by disrupting health service uti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37751950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074769 |
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author | Tannor, Elliot Koranteng Quentin, Wilm Busse, Reinhard Opoku, Daniel Amuasi, John |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a significant impact by disrupting health service utilisation (HSU). The aim of this scoping review is to synthesise the available evidence on HSU in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially focusing on (1) changes in HSU compared with the prepandemic period, (2) changes in HSU among particular patient groups studied and (3) identifying factors determining changes in HSU as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD AND ANALYSIS: The scoping review will be guided by the methodological framework for conducting scoping reviews developed by Arskey and O’Malley. We will identify relevant studies on HSU in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic using PubMed (MEDLINE), Embase, Scopus and Web of Science databases from 1 December, 2019 to 31 March 2023. We will search grey literature, government and organisational websites for reports and conference proceedings. Included studies will be restricted to those reported in English or French. Two reviewers will independently screen articles at the title and abstract stage for inclusion into full text screening. We will provide a general descriptive overview, tabular summaries and content analysis for the extracted data. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval is not required for the conduct of the scoping review. We will disseminate our findings via open access peer-reviewed journals and scientific presentations. Our scoping review findings will help to determine the feasibility of a subsequent systematic review (and meta-analysis) on HSU during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-105336692023-09-29 Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review Tannor, Elliot Koranteng Quentin, Wilm Busse, Reinhard Opoku, Daniel Amuasi, John BMJ Open Public Health INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a significant impact by disrupting health service utilisation (HSU). The aim of this scoping review is to synthesise the available evidence on HSU in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially focusing on (1) changes in HSU compared with the prepandemic period, (2) changes in HSU among particular patient groups studied and (3) identifying factors determining changes in HSU as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD AND ANALYSIS: The scoping review will be guided by the methodological framework for conducting scoping reviews developed by Arskey and O’Malley. We will identify relevant studies on HSU in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic using PubMed (MEDLINE), Embase, Scopus and Web of Science databases from 1 December, 2019 to 31 March 2023. We will search grey literature, government and organisational websites for reports and conference proceedings. Included studies will be restricted to those reported in English or French. Two reviewers will independently screen articles at the title and abstract stage for inclusion into full text screening. We will provide a general descriptive overview, tabular summaries and content analysis for the extracted data. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval is not required for the conduct of the scoping review. We will disseminate our findings via open access peer-reviewed journals and scientific presentations. Our scoping review findings will help to determine the feasibility of a subsequent systematic review (and meta-analysis) on HSU during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10533669/ /pubmed/37751950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074769 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Public Health Tannor, Elliot Koranteng Quentin, Wilm Busse, Reinhard Opoku, Daniel Amuasi, John Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title | Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 on health service utilisation in sub-saharan africa: protocol for a scoping review |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37751950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074769 |
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