ReviewJournal of immigrant and minority health2012
Rethinking immigrant tuberculosis control in Canada: from medical surveillance to tackling social determinants of health.
Review in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Systems of support for foreign-born TB patients and their family members.Public health action · 2022Article
- Post-tuberculosis mortality risk among immigrants to British Columbia, Canada, 1985-2015: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis of linked immigration, public health, and vital statistics data.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2021Article
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- Tuberculosis in tropical areas and immigrants.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2014Review
- Local level epidemiological analysis of TB in people from a high incidence country of birth.BMC public health · 2013Article
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Abstract
Current tuberculosis control strategies in Canada rely exclusively on screening and surveillance of immigrants. This is consistent with current public health discourse that attributes the high burden of immigrant tuberculosis to the exposure of immigrants to infection in their country of origin. The effectiveness of control strategies is questionable given the evidence that many immigrants are at higher risk of tuberculosis reactivation because of risk factors such as poverty, malnutrition and overcrowded housing. This paper argues that the absence of policies that address poverty-related disadvantages among immigrants makes these populations more vulnerable to the reactivation of their tuberculosis long after they have been exposed in their countries of birth. Policies for tuberculosis prevention in the Aboriginal population attend to their poverty and other social determinants of health. Effective health prevention policy for tuberculosis within the immigrant population must take similar direction.
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