Skip to main content

Foreign born tuberculosis in Canada: Are current screening and control practices working?

Resource type
Thesis type
(Project) M.Sc.
Date created
2008
Authors/Contributors
Abstract
Western countries including Canada have seen a steady decline in the incidence rates of tuberculosis (TB) since the advent of anti-tuberculosis drugs in the 1940s. However, less developed nations continue to struggle with high incidence rates as a result of inadequate prevention and treatment programs. The relatively high influx of immigrants from high-incidence countries poses a public health risk for individuals in low-incidence countries, such as Canada. This paper seeks to determine if TB prevention and control programs in Canada are adequately equipped to handle foreign-born TB (FB TB) cases and what improvements, if any, can be made to the current reporting and surveillance system. An overview of screening and surveillance procedures from a range of other countries is used to provide a basis for comparison and recommendations, as is an analysis of data from the Canadian Tuberculosis Reporting System (CTBRS).
Document
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author.
Permissions
The author has not granted permission for the file to be printed nor for the text to be copied and pasted. If you would like a printable copy of this thesis, please contact summit-permissions@sfu.ca.
Scholarly level
Supervisor or Senior Supervisor
Thesis advisor: Corber, Steven
Language
English
Member of collection
Download file Size
etd3425.pdf 4.2 MB

Views & downloads - as of June 2023

Views: 0
Downloads: 0