Tuberculosis control in Scandinavia
Romanus, V.; Tala, E.; Blöndal, T.; Heldal, E.; Poulsen, S.
Nordisk Medicin 110(2): 45-47
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-1420 PMID: 7854909 Document Number: 451901
Compared with the rest of the world, the situation regarding tuberculosis is favourable in the Nordic countries. In 1993, the incidence for persons born in respective country (per 100,000 of the population) was 4.1 in Denmark, 3.2 in Iceland and Sweden, 3.8 in Norway and 10.0 in Finland. The respective average figures for foreign-born residents were 6-14 times higher. Programmes for contending with tuberculosis have been uniform in the Nordic countries, with the exception of BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccination policy, though childhood tuberculosis is rare in the area. However, tuberculosis represents a manifest problem among the foreign-born population, first and foremost among the increasing number of refugees.