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According to the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, TB cases were up 19% in 2023 compared to the previous year. "These data do not reflect an outbreak, but rather a widely dispersed and increasing community health risk for a contagious illness," the agency said. Dr...
Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia Desalegn Dawit Assele Research Institute CAPHRI, Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands Mark Spigt General Practice Research Unit, Department of Community Medicine...
The IHS, part of the US Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, operates a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 1.5 million of the nation's two million American Indians and Alaska Natives and in 1999 its annual appropriation was approximately $2.2 ...
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Bureau of Tuberculosis Control QuantiFERON ® -TB Gold Fact SheetGold, Quantiferon
To gather data on demographic characteristics and clinically relevant information, a structured data extraction form was developed. The TB patient registration record books were used to collect the data. Data were collected in the TB clinic by trained research assistants. The information gathered include...
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada Maziar Divangahi McGill International TB Centre, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada Maziar Divangahi Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robin Chemers Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, ...
Self-reported HCU in the past 12 months was collected for any contact with a general practitioner, specialist, emergency department, and hospitalization. Pearson correlation coefficients (r) compared each measure to %BF-defined obesity, the reference standard. Relative risks (RR) and risk differences...
For indigenous people, home visits by health professionals were offered more frequently, highlighting the per- formance of the strategies of directly observed treat- ment (DOT) (Table 2). Regarding compliance/bond, the indigenous patients with TB felt that they were not as well understood as ...