The Incidence of Tuberculosis Among Low Income People

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plications of social class and race for urban public health policy making.
Some interesting work has also been done on the epidemiology of TB in low-income areas. A.R. Lifson et al. (1999) have done a study called ‘Tuberculin skin testing among economically disadvantaged youth in a federally-funded job training program.’ For this study, the valuable aspect of Lifson et al.’s paper was the following finding: that differences in geographic region of residence were not significant after adjusting for other factors. This has implications for the importance of screening groups at risk for tuberculous infection, as well as for public health policy and services offered in high-risk areas.
It has also proven useful to investigate international cases wherein race and class factor in. N. Andersson’s study ‘Tuberculosis and social stratification in South Africa’ (1990), suggests that poverty, race and the incidence of tuberculosis were a global phenomenon. In the South African case, the risk of TB for people categorized by the sta...