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KMID : 1143420200130513598
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 51 p.3598 ~ p.3609
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Characteristics and Trends in Deaths from Tuberculosis in Korea
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Kim Jin-Sun
Shin Jee-Yeon
In Hye-Kyung
Shim Eun-Hye
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobaterium tuberculosis. Worldwide, TB is one of the top ten causes of death and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. TB is a preventable and curable disease yet there are millions of new TB cases and TB deaths per year worldwide. In 2018, the first UN high-level meeting on TB was held and a resolution was passed to accelerate efforts to eradicate TB by 2030. The aim of this report was to review the characteristics of TB deaths in 2019 and to analyze TB death trends between 2001 to 2019.
In 2019, the total number of deaths in Korea from TB was 1,610 wherein 143 TB deaths certificates (8.9%) were issued by physicians and filed at local administration offices. Moreover, as a more accurate measure of the number of deaths from TB, the national TB surveillance data from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) confirmed 1,363 deaths from TB (84.7%), and 104 deaths were classified as TB deaths in both the National Health Insurance Service’s (NHIS) data and the National Emergency Medical Center’s (NEMC) emergency records.
Statistics Korea released the Causes of Death Statistics in 2019. TB deaths in 2019 was 1,610 (the mortality rate = 3.1 per 100,000 population), with an reduction of 9.9% from the previous year (2018). Also, 82.9% of the deaths from TB involved elderly patients aged 65 years or older and the TB mortality rate of the elderly was 17.3 per 100,000 population, with an reduction of 9.9% from the previous year (2018).
This report revealed that TB remains a serious health issue among the elderly aged 65 and over in Korea. The implications of this report are reflected in the KDCA’s 2019 policy measure to strengthen TB prevention management and to accelerate the UN’s goal of ending TB by 2030.
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KEYWORD
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Tuberculosis, Mortality, the Elderly
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