IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.71.11.1223_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Foreign-born persons with tuberculosis in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Powell, K.E.
  • Meador, M.P.
  • Farer, L.S.

Abstract

Two recent surveys of selected states and cities suggest that foreign-born persons account for approximately 15 per cent of the new cases of tuberculosis reported annually in the areas surveyed. In both surveys the largest number of foreign-born persons came from the Western Hemisphere, the next largest from Asia. The largest number of foreign-born persons with tuberculosis are in the 15-29 year age group, presumably because most entering aliens are in this age group. Among persons with tuberculosis, a larger per cent of foreign-born patients have extrapulmonary disease than do native-born patients. About 50 per cent of the foreign-born persons with tuberculosis entered the United States within the five years prior to onset of disease. Within the United States, significant inter-area variation exists in the proportion of persons with tuberculosis who are foreign-born and in the countries of origin of these persons.

Suggested Citation

  • Powell, K.E. & Meador, M.P. & Farer, L.S., 1981. "Foreign-born persons with tuberculosis in the United States," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 71(11), pages 1223-1227.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.71.11.1223_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.71.11.1223
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.71.11.1223
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.71.11.1223?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.71.11.1223_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.