Download or read book The Study of Tuberculosis in the United States Navy written by Presley Marion Rixey and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuberculosis Infection Among Young Adults Enlisting in the United States Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis (TB) is a re-emerging infectious disease threat worldwide. To protect the health and readiness of US military personnel, policies exist to screen for and treat latent TB infection at the time of service entrance. Results of this screening programme have not been recently described. Multivariate regression techniques were used to evaluate demographic and medical data associated with TB infection among all young adults entering US Navy enlisted service between 1 October 1997 and 30 September 1998. A total of 44 128 adults (ages 17-35, 81% male) were screened for TB during this 12-month period. The prevalence of latent TB infection was 3.5%. Place of birth was very strongly associated with TB infection, with foreign-born recruits eight times more likely to have a reactive tuberculin skin test or history of infection. Those who reported their race as Asian/Pacific Island' had 3.8 times the odds of having evidence of TB infection compared with Caucasian' recruits, even after adjusting for place of birth. The prevalence of TB infection among Navy recruits was last reported as 2.5% nearly 10 years ago. The apparent increase to 3.5% in this large cohort is likely due to a concurrent increase in the number of foreign-born recruits, and it serves to underscore the importance of comprehensive screening and treatment of latent TB infections in this population.
Download or read book Hospitalization Rates of Tuberculosis in U S Navy Enlisted Personnel A 15 Year Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis (TB) has been a scourge of mankind since ancient times, and even today it remains one of the foremost causes of disability and death throughout the world. Despite decades of successful control and decreasing rates in the United States, TB is making a comeback. In 1992, 26,673 cases of active TB were reported to the Centers for Disease Control, up 20% from 1985, when resurgence of the disease began. Twenty-two states in 1992 reported increases over 1991 in the number of TB cases reported. The largest increases occurred in Virginia (20.6%), Illinois (6.5%), New York (3.3%), and California (2.1%). The primary factors thought to be responsible for this increase in TB incidence are immigration from high-prevalence countries; confection with HIV; social disruption, including homelessness and drug abuse; outbreaks of TB which occur in congregative facilities; and the recent appearance of multiple drug-resistant TB. The worldwide incidence of TB is expected to increase substantially over the next 10 years. An estimated 7.5 million incident cases of TB occurred worldwide during 1990. Approximately 4.9 million cases (66%) occurred in the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific regions; India (2.1 million), China (1.3 million), and Indonesia (0.4 million) accounted for the largest number of cases. On April 23, 1993, the World Health Organization declared TB a global public health emergency, a distinction never accorded another disease. All recruits entering the Navy are screened for a number of diseases, including both HIV and TB.
Download or read book Hospitalization of Persons Discharged from the United States Navy Or Marine Corps who Have Contracted Tuberculosis in the Line of Duty While in the Naval Service February 3 1927 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitalization of Persons Discharged from the United States Navy Or Marine Corps who Have Contracted Tuberculosis in the Line of Duty While in the Naval Service written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quarterly Progress Report of Veterans Administration Army Navy Study on the Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis written by Veterans Administration-Army-Navy Study on the Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitalization Rates of Tuberculosis in U S Navy Enlisted Personnel written by Martin R. White and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuberculosis in the Workplace written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before effective treatments were introduced in the 1950s, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Health care workers were at particular risk. Although the occupational risk of tuberculosis has been declining in recent years, this new book from the Institute of Medicine concludes that vigilance in tuberculosis control is still needed in workplaces and communities. Tuberculosis in the Workplace reviews evidence about the effectiveness of control measuresâ€"such as those recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâ€"intended to prevent transmission of tuberculosis in health care and other workplaces. It discusses whether proposed regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration would likely increase or sustain compliance with effective control measures and would allow adequate flexibility to adapt measures to the degree of risk facing workers.
Download or read book Latent Tuberculosis Infection in United States Military written by Janet June Tang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military personnel are at a higher risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection through military deployments, assignments to high incidence countries, and close contact with refugees and prisoners of war. Service members are routinely tested; those with active TB or latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are treated. The purpose of this dissertation was to (1) propose a method for LTBI surveillance among United States military personnel using pharmacy and medical records; (2) determine LTBI conversion rates and associated risk factors in Navy health care workers (HCWs) using this method; and (3) evaluate adverse events associated with LTBI treatment in this population. These studies used data from the Military Health System Data Repository, a collection of databases on health care services (inpatient, outpatient, and prescription information) provided to military personnel. Using both pharmacy and medical records, among 3,089,436 military personnel, 133,365 service members were identified with LTBI; 38.9% (n = 51,943) had LTBI indicated in both sources within 180 days of each other. Moderate concordance (kappa = 0.55) was observed between both sources for LTBI. The LTBI incidence among 18,975 Navy HCWs over the study period was1.7% (95% CI 1.5-1.9), with an incidence density of 4.6 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI 4.12-5.13). Using survival analysis, being non-white and foreign born were LTBI risk factors for HCWs, while overseas duty stations and Iraq or Afghanistan deployments were inversely associated with LTBI diagnosis. Among 74,537 service members prescribed LTBI treatment, 96% (71,427) were dispensed isoniazid and 4% (3,110) rifampin. Treatment-associated adverse events were reported in 7.0% of service members. During the study period, the number of service members starting treatment decreased over time, but the incidence of adverse events did not change. Isoniazid was a risk factor for any adverse event compared to rifampin using logistic regression. Prescribing vitamin B6 was associated with lower odds of adverse events. For service members older than 25 years, the odds of having any adverse event increased with age. This proposed method for TB surveillance can be beneficial for military LTBI providers and could be used in the absence of a global LTBI reporting system to monitor incidence and treatment-associated adverse events.
Download or read book Perspectives on the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System: A Program Review describes the capacity, quality, and effectiveness of the international and domestic facilities and programs that are a part of a DoD system to monitor and address emerging infectious diseases globally. The committee concludes that the goals of the system are in U.S. military, U.S. civilian, and global public health interests and that substantial progress has been made toward achieving system goals.
Download or read book United States Naval Medical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States naval medical bulletin v 11 1917 written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Naval Medical Bulletin for the Information of the Medical Department of the Navy written by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States naval medical bulletin v 20 1924 written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reported Tuberculosis in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuberculosis in the Army of the United States in World War II written by Esmond Ray Long and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuberculosis and War written by J.F. Murray and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the largest cause of adult deaths from any single infectious disease, and ranks among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. When TB and war occur simultaneously, the inevitable consequences are disease, human misery, suffering, and heightened mortality. TB is, therefore, one of the most frequent and deadly diseases to complicate the special circumstances of warfare. Written by internationally acclaimed experts, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. A special chapter on “Nazi Medicine, Tuberculosis and Genocide” examines the horrendous, inhuman Nazi ideology, which during WWII used TB as a justification for murder, and targeted the disease by eradicating millions who were afflicted by it. The final chapter summarizes the lessons learned from WWII and more recent wars and recommends anti-TB measures for future conflicts. This publication is not only of interest to TB specialists and pulmonologists but also to those interested in public health, infectious diseases, war-related issues and the history of medicine. It should also appeal to nonmedical readers like journalists and politicians.
