Ten years of tuberculosis intervention in Greenland – has it prevented cases of childhood tuberculosis?

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Emilie Birch, Mikael Andersson, Anders Koch, Flemming Stenz, Bolette Søborg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014
• Subjects: epidemiological study; tuberculosis disease; tuberculosis control; children; Greenland; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Calmette; Circumpolar Health; greenlandic; International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v73.24843; https://doaj.org/article/34a15564ec7147f19de470a4a5c2c1e2

Background: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) disease in Greenland doubled in the 1990s. To combat the increase, national TB interventions were initiated in 2000 and strengthened in 2007. Objective: To determine whether the effect of interventions could be detected, we estimated the TB disease risk...