Determinants of tuberculosis trends in six Indigenous populations of the USA, Canada, and Greenland from 1960 to 2014: a population-based study

• Main Authors: Kianoush Dehghani, MD (Author), Zhiyi Lan, MSc (Author), Peizhi Li, MSc (Author), Sascha Wilk Michelsen, PhD (Author), Sean Waites, BA (Author), Andrea Benedetti, PhD (Author), Pierre Lejeune, BPs (Author), Jill Torrie, MA (Author), Elizabeth Robinson, MD (Author), Berenica Vejvoda, MISt (Author), Muhammad Mullah, PhD (Author), Diana Redwood, PhD (Author), Michael Cooper, MD (Author), Anne Fanning, FRCPC (Author), Wadieh Yacoub, MD (Author), Gonzalo G Alvarez, MD (Author), Bolette Søborg, PhD (Author), Richard Long, MD (Author), Dick Menzies, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Tuberculosis continues to disproportionately affect many Indigenous populations in the USA, Canada, and Greenland. We aimed to investigate whether population-based tuberculosis-specific interventions or changes in general health and socioeconomic indicators, or a combination of these fac...