GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dna Profiling, Shigellosis, Sampling Bias
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The association of housing density, isolation and tuberculosis in. Background: first nations communities experienced high levels of overcrowded housing, degree of isolation and rates of tuberculosis tb. A study was done to assess the association of between housing density, isolation and the occurrence of tb in first. Analyses show tb incidence higher in communities isolated from health services data was collected from the seven first nations and inuit health branch who were living on-reserve. >90km to physician services: non-isolated - flights/good telephone service, road access <90km to physician services. Results indicated that average housing density appeared to be higher in the first nations population that non-aboriginal populations. First nations tb rates were the highest in saskatchewan and then alberta and manitoba, which also had the highest average levels of housing density. Income levels are the lowest in the maritime provinces ,similar to the trend in the non-
