Tuberculosis elimination in the Canadian First Nations population: assessment by a state-transfer, compartmental epidemic model | Zendy

M. A. Clark | Zendy; D. William Cameron | Zendy

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Tuberculosis elimination in the Canadian First Nations population: assessment by a state-transfer, compartmental epidemic model

Author(s) -

M. A. Clark,

D. William Cameron

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.06.021

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , medicine , disease , population , public health , environmental health , transmission (telecommunications) , disease burden , demography , computer science , telecommunications , physics , nursing , pathology , sociology , optics

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem in Canadian Aboriginal (First Nations and Inuit) communities. The objectives of this study were to predict future disease burden and set feasible targets for the elimination of TB in the First Nations population, using retrospective data and an epidemic model.

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