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Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman

BACKGROUND: During the past three decades, Oman has made significant progress in controlling TB within it's borders. However, the national TB control program elimination target has yet to be reached. This study aims to explore the perceived roles played by the immigrant population and the priva...

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Autores principales: Al-Maniri, Abdullah, Fochsen, Grethe, Al-Rawas, Omar, De Costa, Ayesha
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20637062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-210
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author Al-Maniri, Abdullah
Fochsen, Grethe
Al-Rawas, Omar
De Costa, Ayesha
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description BACKGROUND: During the past three decades, Oman has made significant progress in controlling TB within it's borders. However, the national TB control program elimination target has yet to be reached. This study aims to explore the perceived roles played by the immigrant population and the private health sector in relation to TB control in Oman. METHODS: We conducted seventeen interviews with different health care providers. The verbatim transcripts were processed using content analysis. RESULTS: Three main themes emerged. Firstly the threat of repatriation faced by underprivileged expatriates, secondly the criticized and forgotten private health sector as a key player and thirdly the user and provider barriers faced by Omani patients in the Omani public health system. CONCLUSIONS: The study has identified some of the challenges and barriers to TB control in Oman. These challenges are mainly related to unintended negative consequences arising from the current repatriation policy of immigrants and to and the lack of involvement of the private sector in TB control. TB control strategies designed to address these challenges are needed, for Oman to reach its TB elimination targets.
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spelling pubmed-29195302010-08-11 Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman Al-Maniri, Abdullah Fochsen, Grethe Al-Rawas, Omar De Costa, Ayesha BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: During the past three decades, Oman has made significant progress in controlling TB within it's borders. However, the national TB control program elimination target has yet to be reached. This study aims to explore the perceived roles played by the immigrant population and the private health sector in relation to TB control in Oman. METHODS: We conducted seventeen interviews with different health care providers. The verbatim transcripts were processed using content analysis. RESULTS: Three main themes emerged. Firstly the threat of repatriation faced by underprivileged expatriates, secondly the criticized and forgotten private health sector as a key player and thirdly the user and provider barriers faced by Omani patients in the Omani public health system. CONCLUSIONS: The study has identified some of the challenges and barriers to TB control in Oman. These challenges are mainly related to unintended negative consequences arising from the current repatriation policy of immigrants and to and the lack of involvement of the private sector in TB control. TB control strategies designed to address these challenges are needed, for Oman to reach its TB elimination targets. BioMed Central 2010-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2919530/ /pubmed/20637062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-210 Text en Copyright ©2010 Al-Maniri et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Al-Maniri, Abdullah
Fochsen, Grethe
Al-Rawas, Omar
De Costa, Ayesha
Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title_full Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title_fullStr Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title_full_unstemmed Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title_short Immigrants and health system challenges to TB control in Oman
title_sort immigrants and health system challenges to tb control in oman
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20637062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-210
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