Global tuberculosis report 2013.

Format:

Book

Series:

Nonserial Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--Prevention--Statistics.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--Epidemiology--Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention care and control at global regional and country levels using data reported by almost 200 countries that account for over 99% of the world''s TB cases. Two years before the 2015 deadline for achievement of global TB targets the 2013 report includes a special supplement that assesses progress towards the 2015 targets and the actions needed to accelerate towards

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The burden of disease caused by TB; Chapter 3. TB case notifications and treatment outcomes; Chapter 4. Drug-resistant TB; Chapter 5. Diagnostics and laboratory strengthening; Chapter 6. Addressing the co-epidemics of TB and HIV; Chapter 7. Financing; Chapter 8. Research and development; Annexes; 1. Methods used to estimate the global burden of disease caused by TB; 2. Country profiles; 3. Regional profiles; 4. Key indicators for the world, WHO regions and individual countries

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 22, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-4-069182-0

OCLC:

892245884