objective: to identify the relationship between socioeconomic status, health system development and the incidence, prevalence and mortality of  tuberculosis in asia and the pacific. methods: incidence, prevalence and mortality rates of  tuberculosis and 20 variables of  socioeconomic, health system and biological behavioral issues were included in the study involving all 46 countries of  the as...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is one of the most common diseases in developing countries, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Tuberculosis has varied clinical presentations, varying from common primary pulmonary tuberculosis to the extremely rare tubercular otitis externa, as in this case. Tubercular otitis externa has an extremely low clinical incidence.   Case Report: We report the...

Tuberculosis and smoking are among the most pressing issues in modern health care system world. patients who smoke confirmed to have reduced effectiveness of anti-tuberculosis therapy, unsatisfactory prognosis a specific disease, higher risk treatment failure mortality from this disease. Diseases such as HIV alcoholism increase ineffective tobacco smokers. In addition, leads increased virulence...

tuberculosis (tb) is one of the 10 leading cause of deaths in developing countries. understanding the cause and risk factors of tb death and lowering them can reduce its mortality rate. the aim of this study was to assess the cause and risk factors for death of tuberculosis. a retrospective descriptive study was conducted in khuzestan province in the south west of iran, from 2002 to 2006. medic...

OBJECTIVE To understand the current status and trends of tuberculosis mortality rates in China. METHODS In 2010, 161 National Disease Surveillance Points representing all 31 mainland provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions of China collected tuberculosis mortality surveillance data, including age, sex, region, and type of tuberculosis (all, pulmonary, and extra-pulmonary). The morta...

Birth cohort patterns in mortality are often used to infer long-lasting impacts of early life conditions. One of the most widely accepted examples of a birth cohort effect is that of tuberculosis mortality before the late 1940s. However the evidential basis for claims of cohort-specific declines in tuberculosis mortality is very slight. Reanalysis of original or enhanced versions of datasets us...