Tuberculosis in First Nations Communities

Creator: Health Canada

Geography: North America, Canada

Categories: Aboriginal Health

Tags: aboriginal health, deaths/mortality, demographics/population trends, drug resistance, ethnicity, screening, sti/hiv/aids, tuberculosis (TB)

Date: 1999

URL: http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/H35-4-7-1999E.pdf

Annotation:

PDF, 66 pages, including appendices.

This PDF contains chapters discussing epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) among First Nations persons living on-reserve, regional TB control programs, and TB outbreaks. It also includes many tables such as on-reserve TB cases by FNIHB region (1990-1999), HIV infection in active TB cases by Region, mortality from active TB in First Nations communities by Region, etc.

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