Toward a County-Level Map of Tuberculosis Rates in the U.S
| Autor: | John S. Brownstein, Martin S. Cetron, David Scales, Kamran Khan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Local Government
Tuberculosis Communicable disease Epidemiology business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Census medicine.disease Metropolitan area Article United States Public health surveillance Residence Characteristics Local government Environmental health Humans Medicine Public Health Surveillance Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S business Socioeconomic status |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 46:e49-e51 |
| ISSN: | 0749-3797 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.02.001 |
| Popis: | Active tuberculosis (TB) is a reportable communicable disease in all 50 states, but nationwide, county-level data are not released publicly. The CDC’s Online Tuberculosis Information System (OTIS) provides public surveillance data only by state. Owing to an agreement with the states, the CDC cannot publicly release TB data at the county level, precluding the development of publicly available, county-level maps of TB cases and incidence rates. The lack of a more granular nationwide data set has limited the study of TB trends and socioeconomic risk factors to states,1 Metropolitan Statistical Areas,2 or census tracts within a single state.3 A nationwide county-level data set of TB rates provides opportunities to examine TB-related trends across multiple states, metropolitan areas, and across counties with similar demographic characteristics, such as the number of people deemed to be at high risk.4 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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