Table 1 Key statistics for inputs and outputs
From: Health system productivity in sub-Saharan Africa: tuberculosis control in high burden countries
Indicators | Variable name | Definition/measure | Mean | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Outputs | |||||
Case fatality ratio (%) | cfr | “Number of TB deaths divided by estimated number of incident cases in the same years, expressed as a percentage”6 Recommended target level: < = 5% The SDG targets are to reduce cfr to 6.5% by 2025 | 13.07 (6.88) | 3.46 | 30.74 |
TB treatment success rate (%) | tsr | “Percentage of notified TB patients who were successfully treated”6 Recommended target level: > = 90% | 78.61 (14.10) | 23 | 91 |
Inputs | |||||
National TB budget (US$ millions in PPP) | tbb | Public expenditure and aid from international institutions to TB Programs. All national TB budget were converted to express in a common currency the monetary aggregates. We used the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) | 31.39 (120.90) | 0.43 | 476.04 |
TB treatment coverage (%) | tbc | “Number of new and relapse cases that were notified and treated, divided by the estimated number of incident TB cases in the same year, expressed as a percentage”6 | 53.00 (13.51) | 22 | 84 |
TB diagnostic services | tds | Numbers of laboratories providing tuberculosis diagnostic services using smear microscopy and GeneXpert and TB diagnostic | 594.17 (740.26) | 17 | 2972 |
Quality | qua | Number of drug susceptibility testing laboratories for which External Quality Assessment (EQA) was carried out | 2.60 (3.48) | 0 | 16 |