Medico-social aspects of epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Extreme North
Vasil'ev, A.V.; Golubeva, T.M.; Zolotukhin, V.A.; Galkin, V.B.; Lebedev, V.B.
Problemy Tuberkuleza 1992(7-8): 4-6
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-9533 PMID: 1488439 Document Number: 389721
Tuberculosis is still of top priority in health care of the not numerous peoples of the Extreme North and will preserve its importance as a prevalent infection for the nearest ten years. All aborigines must be included in high-risk groups of tuberculosis and the system of its control should be based on a state status, which supposes the immediate solution of socio-economic and medico-biological problems. It is advisable to organize the interdepartmental committee for tuberculosis at the Association of northern peoples and envisage additional assignments, including foreign currency, to be spent on research work, fluorographic++ technology, diagnostic means and equipment and medicaments. Under conditions of a new economic mechanism and market economy assignments aimed at anti-tuberculosis aid should include donations brought by the leading industrial branches; separate enterprises and state structures.