KMID : 1143420170100300793
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Public Health Weekly Report 2017 Volume.10 No. 30 p.793 ~ p.797
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Occurrence of tuberculosis in 2016, South Korea
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Park Won-Seo
Kang Hae-Young Cha Jeong-Ok Kim Hwon Cho Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis(TB) notification rate in Korea has been on a steady decline since 2011. Notably, in 2016, the rate was 60.4 cases per 100,000, a drop of 4.3% from the previous year, specifically showing 48.3 cases per 100,000 for pulmonary tuberculosis and 12.1 cases per 100,000 for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. However, South Korea still ranked first among OECD member countries in terms of tuberculosis incidence and mortality rates, according to WHO¡¯s key TB indicators. Additionally, it remains at high risk by rising number of tuberculosis-infected foreign-born residents and drug-resistant tuberculosis patients.
To diminish the burden of tuberculosis in effective ways, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has been implementing a national TB elimination plan: (a) an early detection and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI), (b) an improvement in the TB notification rate, and (c) thorough management of TB patients. KCDC is also concentrating multi-faceted efforts to promote public awareness of healthy lifestyles free from TB by providing easy-to-follow guidelines on TB prevention.
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