Racial disparity in mortality from tuberculosis in the US between states with and without a history of Jim-Crow laws: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and risk factors study, 1990 to 2019

• Main Authors: Philimon N. Gona (Author), Lorena M. Estrada-Martinez (Author), Lingling Zhang (Author), Clara M. Gona (Author), Aaloke Mody (Author), Sowmya R. Rao (Author), Joseph Cooper (Author), Kibibi Mack-Shelton (Author), Ping Chen (Author), Suzanne G. Leveille (Author), Ali H. Mokdad (Author), G. B. D. 2019 T. B. Racial Disparity (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background While TB-related mortality in the US declined four-fold from 1990 to 2019, country-level estimates of TB burden obscure within-state racial heterogeneity and changes in TB burden over time. In sixteen US Southern States and Washington DC, the effects of health inequities engender...