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The association between household poverty rates and tuberculosis case notification rates in Cambodia, 2010

Author(s) -

Man Kai Wong,

Rajendra Yadav,

Nobuyuki Nishikiori,

Mao Tan Eang

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

western pacific surveillance response journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 2094-7313

pISSN - 2094-7321

DOI - 10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.1.002

Subject(s) - poverty , demography , poisson regression , sputum , tuberculosis , socioeconomic status , medicine , covariate , relative risk , population , environmental health , geography , economics , confidence interval , economic growth , econometrics , pathology , sociology

Poverty is a risk factor for tuberculosis (TB); it increases the risk of infection and active disease but limits diagnostic opportunities. The role of poverty in the stagnant case detection in Cambodia is unclear. This study aims to assess the relationship between district household poverty rates and sputum-positive TB case notification rates (CNRs) in Cambodia in 2010.

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