Addressing poverty in TB control; options for national TB control programmes.9789241594110 Addressing poverty in TB control; options for national TB control programmes. World Health Organization 2005 80 pages $18.00 Paperback RC311 Jointly prepared by the World Health Organization's Stop TB Department and its Stop TB Partnership, this report discusses the integration of "pro-poor" measures in tuberculosis tuberculosis (TB), contagious, wasting disease caused by any of several mycobacteria. The most common form of the disease is tuberculosis of the lungs (pulmonary consumption, or phthisis), but the intestines, bones and joints, the skin, and the genitourinary, control programs and offers guidance for national TB control programs on practical issues and options for action. It presents chapters on the rationale rationale (rash´  nal´),n the fundamental reasons used as the basis for a decision or action. for integrating pro-poor and equity enhancing measures in TB control, barriers to accessing TB services by poor and vulnerable groups, potential actions for overcoming barriers an accessing services, situations and population groups requiring special consideration, harnessing resources to deliver pro-poor TB services, and assessing the pro-poor performance of TB services and impact of pro-poor measures. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , OR) |
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