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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 16, 2007
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(5):409; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckm046
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Delay in tuberculosis care: one link in a long chain of social inequities

Peter Allebeck*

* Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence: email: Peter.Allebeck@ki.se

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In public health teaching, tuberculosis (TB) has been a traditional example of how disease occurrence is determined by the triad agent, environment, host. And it has since long been standard textbook knowledge that there are strong socioeconomic determinants behind all three components: The agent is more prevalent and is spread more easily in conditions of crowding and poor hygienic conditions, and under these conditions several host factors are also more prevalent, such as malnutrition and alcoholism.

In recent years . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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