Conditional Cash Transfers to Incentivize Tuberculosis Screening: Description of a Novel Strategy for Contact Investigation in Rural South Africa
Author(s) -
Yeonsoo Baik,
Colleen F. Hanrahan,
Lesego Mmolawa,
Bareng A. S. yane,
Nicholas Albaugh,
Limakatso Lebina,
Tsundzukani Siwelana,
Neil Martinson,
David W. Dowdy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciab601
Subject(s) - incentive , medicine , reimbursement , index (typography) , confidence interval , environmental health , demography , family medicine , health care , economic growth , sociology , world wide web , computer science , economics , microeconomics
Providing incentives to screen close contacts for tuberculosis (TB) is an alternative to household-based contact investigation. We aimed to characterize patients and contexts where this incentive-based strategy might be preferred.
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