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Author Nieburg, Phillip, author

Title Tuberculosis, a complex health threat : a policy primer of global TB challenges / Phillip Nieburt, Talia Dubovi, Sahil Angelo
Published Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (IX, 46 pages)
Series CSIS Reports
CSIS report.
Contents Tuberculosis-A Complex Health Threat ; Contents; Preface; Executive Summary; Introduction; 1. The Epidemiology, Pathology, and Biology of Tuberculosis; Latent TB Infection; 2. Screening and Testing for TB Infection and TB Disease; Screening for TB Infection; Testing for a Specific Diagnosis of TB Disease; 3. Treatment of Active TB Disease; 4. The Challenge of Drug-resistant TB; Determining Drug Sensitivity of TB Bacteria; Treatment of Drug-resistant TB; 5. A Focus on Preventing TB Infection and TB Disease; Primary Prevention of TB Infection; Secondary Prevention of TB Disease
6. Complications of TB and TB-control EffortsBiological Complications of TB; Population-specific Complications of TB; Systemic Complications; 7. Institutional Actors on the Global Scene; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund); The World Health Organization's Global TB Programme; Stop TB Partnership; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (Union); KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation; Direct U.S. Government Support for Control of Global TB; 8. TB in the United States Reflects the Global TB Burden; 9. Overarching Challenges; 10. Closing Comment
Appendix A. TB Testing and DiagnosisAppendix B. Additional TB Resources; Appendix C. Abbreviations and Glossary; About the Authors
Summary The pervasiveness of global tuberculosis poses a particular set of challenges to policymakers. In order to make the necessary strategic decisions, it is essential to understand how the disease works and its impact on individuals, families, communities, and broader global health foals. This primer is intended to lay out the basics for a nontechnical audience to give policymakers the information they need to make informed and accurate decisions about the future of U.S. TB control efforts
Notes "April 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes "A report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center."
Online resource; title from PDF title page (CSIS, viewed April 30, 2015)
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Subject Tuberculosis.
World health.
Medical policy.
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Global Health
Health Policy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
World health
Medical policy
Tuberculosis
Form Electronic book
Author Dubovi, Talia, author
Angelo, Sahil, author
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.
ISBN 9781442240957
1442240954