Determinants of tuberculosis trends in six Indigenous populations of the USA, Canada, and Greenland from 1960 to 2014: a population-based study

Tuberculosis continues to disproportionately affect many Indigenous populations in the USA, Canada, and Greenland. We aimed to investigate whether population-based tuberculosis-specific interventions or changes in general health and socioeconomic indicators, or a combination of these factors, were a...

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Main Authors: Dehghani, Kianoush, Lan, Zhiyi, Li, Peizhi, Michelsen, Sascha Wilk, Waites, Sean, Benedetti, Andrea, Lejeune, Pierre, Torrie, Jill, Robinson, Elizabeth, Vejvoda, Berenica, Mullah, Muhammad, Redwood, Diana, Cooper, Michael, Fanning, Anne, Yacoub, Wadieh, Alvarez, Gonzalo G., Søborg, Bolette, Long, Richard, Menzies, Dick
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2018
Subjects:
vaccination
indigenous populations
Canada
Greenland
Online Access:https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/9z903390g
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Summary:Tuberculosis continues to disproportionately affect many Indigenous populations in the USA, Canada, and Greenland. We aimed to investigate whether population-based tuberculosis-specific interventions or changes in general health and socioeconomic indicators, or a combination of these factors, were associated with changes in tuberculosis incidence in these Indigenous populations.

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