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KMID : 1143420200130140832
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 14 p.832 ~ p.850
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Characteristics of the Notified Tuberculosis - Republic of Korea, 2019
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Kim Jin-Sun
Shin Jee-Yeon
Kong In-Sik
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Abstract
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In 2019, the overall notification rate of new tuberculosis (TB) cases was 46.4 per 100,000 population, with an reduction of
9.9% from the previous year rate, and decreasing patterns observed in almost all age groups and in all provinces. Also,
47.1% of new TB cases involved elderly patients aged 65 years or older and the new TB notification rate of the elder was
145.3 per 100,000 population, with an reduction of 10.7% from the previous year rate. The crude incidence in foreign-born
TB patients decreased from 1,801 in 2018 to 1,597 in 2019. Beneficiaries of the Medical Aid, known as socio-economically
vulnerable population, had 3.6 times higher rate of new TB notification compared to those of the Health Insurance. The
number of Multidrug-resistant TB cases dropped from 618 in 2018 to 580 in 2019. The number of TB deaths decreased from
1,816 in 2017 to 1,800 in 2018.
In 2020, to reduce the TB burden, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been implementing the
‘Measures to Strengthen TB Prevention Management’, established in 2019 based on ‘the Second National TB Control Plan,
2018-2022’ applied in recent situation in the Republic of Korea and resolution from the first UN high-level meeting on TB.
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KEYWORD
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Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis patients, Epidemiological characteristics, Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
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