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Tuberculosis Case Finding and Supervision *
The control of tuberculosis has been an accepted objective in public health practice for many years. If present-day knowledge of the disease could be utilized to its fullest, the rate of decline would be accelerated appreciably. Present-day facilities are of little value unless the public will readily and willingly cooperate with the public health agency in utilizing this knowledge. Since Koch ...
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Background At present of the limitation of the current case finding strategies and the global urgency to improve tuberculosis (TB) case finding, a renewed interest in active case finding (ACF) has risen. World Health Organization (WHO) calls for research on TB screening among low-income countries because of the limitation of the passive case finding strategies. We aimed to evaluated Active Case...
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The value of the x-ray film survey in tuberculosis case finding has been corroborated by many studies during the past 30 years. In numerous surveys emphasis has been placed on age, sex, race, occupation, economic status etc.; other studies have shown that there is a high yield of unsuspected active pulmonary tuberculosis in admissions to general hospitals. It is the purpose of this paper to dir...
متن کاملCase-finding for pulmonary tuberculosis in Penang.
The process of case-finding was studied in 100 consecutive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated by the Chest Clinic, Penang Hospital. The median time from the onset of the illness until the initial medical consultation was two weeks (patient's delay). This delay was longer in males, patients with lower than secondary education and drug abusers. Only 47% of patients were put on treatment...
متن کاملDelay in tuberculosis case-finding and treatment in Mwanza, Tanzania.
SETTING Health facilities in Mwanza region, Tanzania. OBJECTIVE To determine factors responsible for delay from onset of symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis to initiation of treatment. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study of 296 smear-positive tuberculosis patients. Emphasis was given to periods between 1) onset of symptoms and first consultation to a health facility, and 2) reporting ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4589075