Angelina Sassi

Dados Biográficos

ID7744809
NOMEAngelina Sassi
PRENOMESAngelina
SOBRENOMESassi
ASSINATURASASSI A
AFILIAÇÕESMcGill University Health Centre
ORCID0000-0002-5807-6388
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Angelina Sassi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking and diagnoses for several diseases are unnecessarily delayed. For example, in 2022, 3 million and 5.6 million people living with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, respectively, were undiagnosed. Many patients never access appropriate testing, remain undiagn…

  • Health and tuberculosis systems resilience, the role of the private sector and pandemic preparedness

    Open AccessLaura Jane Brubacher, Vijayashree Yellappa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented challenge to health systems worldwide and had a severe impact on tuberculosis (TB) case notifications and service delivery. India, Indonesia and Nigeria are high TB-burden countries where the majority of initial care-seeking happens in the private health sector. The objectives of this study were to (1) explore policy-makers’ perspectives on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on private sect…

  • Tdap, MenAcwy, HPV, seasonal influenza, and Covid-19 vaccination status among US teens aged 13–17 years in 2022

    Open AccessNeeta P Regmi, Angela K Ulrich et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Nearly 2 out of 5 adolescents aged 13 to 17 years in 2022 were not fully UTD for Tdap, MenACWY, and HPV vaccines by age 13. Being UTD by age 13 for these vaccines was significantly associated with subsequently receiving seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines

  • Characterizing influenza vaccine coverage and factors associated with missed vaccination among adults from 2018 to 2021

    Open AccessKatie Gravagna, C Wolfson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our analysis suggests that a large proportion of eligible Canadian adults at higher risk of severe complications due to influenza are not receiving a seasonal influenza vaccine, despite recommendations. These estimates and this detailed analysis provide important insights into trends in influenza vaccination coverage among older adults and can serve as a baseline assessment for tracking changes in influenza vaccination coverage over time and in t…

  • Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Pre-COVID-19, individuals with tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria were often underdiagnosed and untreated. TB services were mostly in the public sector with only 15% of new cases in 2019 reported from the private sector. Reports highlighted challenges in accessing care in the private sector, which accounted for 67% of all initial care-seeking. Our study examined patients' health seeking pathways for TB in Nigeria's private sector and explor…

  • Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAngelina Sassi, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Only a third of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Nigeria in 2020 were diagnosed and notified, in part due to low detection and under-reporting from the private health sector. Using a standardised patient (SP) survey approach, we assessed how management of presumptive TB in the private sector aligns with national guidelines and whether this differed from a study conducted before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 13 SPs presented a presumptive TB case …

  • The shifting landscape of private healthcare providers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessRodiah Widarna, Nur Afifah et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Introduction COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of healthcare services and deliveries, including among private healthcare providers (i.e., private healthcare facilities [HCFs] and private practitioners [PPs]). We aimed to compare the spatial distribution of private providers and describe changes in characteristics and services offered during and before the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19-related services offe…

  • Care pathways of individuals with tuberculosis before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia

    Open AccessLavanya Huria, Bony Wiem Lestari et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have undone years’ worth of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). For instance, in Indonesia, a high TB burden country, TB case notifications decreased by 14% and treatment coverage decreased by 47% during COVID-19. We sought to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on TB case detection using two cross-sectional surveys conducted before (2018) and after the onset of the pandemic (2021). These surv…

  • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia

    Open AccessAngelina Sassi, Bony Wiem Lestari et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Results indicate that providers successfully identify tuberculosis in their patients yet do not manage them according to national guidelines. There were no major changes found in quality of tuberculosis care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As tuberculosis notifications have declined in Indonesia due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains an urgent need to increase private provider engagement in Indonesia and improve quality of care

  • Tuberculosis service disruptions and adaptations during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the private health sector of two urban settings in Nigeria—A mixed methods study

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Angelina Sassi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Nigeria has the second largest share of undiagnosed TB cases in the world and a large private health sector estimated to be the point of initial care-seeking for 67% of TB patients. There is evidence that COVID-19 restrictions disrupted private healthcare provision, but insufficient data on how private healthcare provision changed as a result of the pandemic. We conducted qualitative interviews and a survey to assess the impact of the pandemic, a…