Tuberculosis Control Programmes in Developing Countries

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Author(s)
Shears, Paul
Publication date
1988-01-01
Subject
Health
Keywords
Health promotion
Health systems

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Practical Health Guides
Document type
Book
Description
Tuberculosis is likely to remain a major health problem in developing countries as long as communities face poor housing, overcrowding and poor nutrition. Many countries have national tuberculosis control programmes, but these are seldom as effective as they could be because of difficulties in the implementation at village level. This book combines the most recent developments in the scientific understanding of tuberculosis with the realities of working at the level of a primary health centre and suggests ways of improving the efficiency of tuberculosis control programmes by an increased understanding of the importance of the sputum-positive patient as the source of transmission and therefore the target of control.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The difficulties of TB control: some examples from the field; Chapter 3 Basic pathology and epidemiology of TB; Chapter 4 The principles of control; Chapter 5 Involving the community; Chapter 6 Establishing the size of the TB problem in your community; Chapter 7 Planning an appropriate TB control programme; Chapter 8 BCG vaccination programme; Chapter 9 Case-finding; Chapter 10 The principles of drug treatment; Chapter 11 Problems of drug treatment: resistance, default, or poor compliance; Chapter 12 Monitoring and evaluating the programme; Chapter 13 TB programmes for special situations; Chapter 14 TB in children and non-pulmonary TB in adults; Chapter 15 The role of development programmes in reducing the TB problem; Chapter 16 Funding TB control programmes; Chapter 17 TB and Aids; Appendices
Pages
73
ISBN
9780855980962
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121447
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/tuberculosis-control-programmes-in-developing-countries-121447
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