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Fig. 3

From: Repairing boundaries along pathways to tuberculosis case detection: a qualitative synthesis of intervention designs

Fig. 3

A decision tree to predict how activities (red) could influence TB care-seeking pathways. Starting with a group of people with and without TB symptoms and assuming people have to recognize their TB symptoms to seek care for TB symptoms (TB care seeking), this decision tree depicts how intervention activities (red text) could influence the group of people accessing care. At general health services (all green boxes), intervention activities may increase the number of people accessing care for TB symptoms specifically (*), but this group of people are mixed with people seeking care for health problems other than TB, among whom there may be people with unrecognized TB symptoms (**). For TB services exclusively inviting people with TB symptoms, the group of people accessing care only consists of people recognizing TB symptoms (*)

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Health Research Policy and Systems

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