Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis
Why haven’t we already eliminated tuberculosis (TB)? Why does it continue to plague the globe, contributing to the greatest burden of disease than any other single pathogen? While a substantial body of literature focuses on the challenging social determinants, including low economic development and...
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| description | Why haven’t we already eliminated tuberculosis (TB)? Why does it continue to plague the globe, contributing to the greatest burden of disease than any other single pathogen? While a substantial body of literature focuses on the challenging social determinants, including low economic development and HIV, that are associated with TB prevalence, this book focuses on an active and hopeful framework for TB elimination. Here, the manifestation of the social determinants toward TB’s persistence is explained by the mechanics of TB transmission, opening a powerful and clear pathway for systematic global TB control. As an obligate airborne pathogen, TB only spreads through the air between humans. This collection describes the key elements of early detection and diagnosis that are helpful for all students of TB and practitioners implementing TB control in the field. The collection is also beneficial for policymakers interested to quickly learn more about TB in support of policies and funding efforts to truly make meaningful progress and achieve TB elimination. This work is not simply food for thought. Despite the preventable and controllable nature of TB, TB takes over a million lives each year. While new vaccines are on the horizon and can help, we already have all the tools we need to eliminate TB. It’s time to direct focus on a focused effort of implementation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1615992025-06-17T15:43:26Z Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis Bueno de Mesquita, Jacob Infectious and contagious diseases thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJC Diseases and disorders::MJCJ Infectious and contagious diseases Why haven’t we already eliminated tuberculosis (TB)? Why does it continue to plague the globe, contributing to the greatest burden of disease than any other single pathogen? While a substantial body of literature focuses on the challenging social determinants, including low economic development and HIV, that are associated with TB prevalence, this book focuses on an active and hopeful framework for TB elimination. Here, the manifestation of the social determinants toward TB’s persistence is explained by the mechanics of TB transmission, opening a powerful and clear pathway for systematic global TB control. As an obligate airborne pathogen, TB only spreads through the air between humans. This collection describes the key elements of early detection and diagnosis that are helpful for all students of TB and practitioners implementing TB control in the field. The collection is also beneficial for policymakers interested to quickly learn more about TB in support of policies and funding efforts to truly make meaningful progress and achieve TB elimination. This work is not simply food for thought. Despite the preventable and controllable nature of TB, TB takes over a million lives each year. While new vaccines are on the horizon and can help, we already have all the tools we need to eliminate TB. It’s time to direct focus on a focused effort of implementation. 2025-06-17T15:43:21Z 2025-06-17T15:43:21Z 2025 book ONIX_20250617T171318_9780850144574_171 2631-6188 9780850144574 9780850144567 9780850144581 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/161599 eng Infectious Diseases image/jpeg n/a https://www.intechopen.com/books/13413 https://mts.intechopen.com/storage/books/13413/authors_book/authors_book.pdf IntechOpen IntechOpen 10.5772/intechopen.114554 10.5772/intechopen.114554 78a36484-2c0c-47cb-ad67-2b9f5cd4a8f6 9780850144574 9780850144567 9780850144581 IntechOpen 36 142 open access |
| spellingShingle | Infectious and contagious diseases thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJC Diseases and disorders::MJCJ Infectious and contagious diseases Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title | Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title_full | Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title_fullStr | Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title_short | Improving Societal Systems to End Tuberculosis |
| title_sort | improving societal systems to end tuberculosis |
| topic | Infectious and contagious diseases thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJC Diseases and disorders::MJCJ Infectious and contagious diseases |
| topic_facet | Infectious and contagious diseases thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MJ Clinical and internal medicine::MJC Diseases and disorders::MJCJ Infectious and contagious diseases |
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