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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 4Tuberculosis
- 1Aboriginal
- 1Aboriginal health
- 1Chest radiographs
- 1Clinical Epidemiology
- 1Community based research
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Spring 2013
Aims: This study aims to 1) provide a platform to discuss and document one First Nations community’s experiences and impacts of tuberculosis (TB); and 2) to understand the social context occurring within the community which may promote continual disease transmission. Methods: This Community-Based...
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An assessment of Canada’s foreign-born tuberculosis surveillance strategy and insights gained into TB transmission
DownloadSpring 2024
This thesis, comprising three published research papers, examines both Canada's tuberculosis (TB) surveillance strategies among foreign-born individuals and broader TB transmission dynamics. In Canada, a country with low TB incidence, most TB cases occur among the foreign-born population. The...
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Comparing contact investigations of tuberculosis cases among the Canadian Born Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal population in Alberta, Canada
DownloadSpring 2015
It is well established that the rates of tuberculosis (TB) among Aboriginal Peoples in Alberta are disproportionately higher than those in the Canadian-born 'other' population group (Jensen, Lau, Langlois-Klassen, et al., 2012). In addition, Aboriginal Peoples living on-reserve have higher rates...
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Spring 2020
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that has an airborne route of transmission. It is a disease of poverty that exists in every country of the world. Within high-income, low TB burden settings, the disease increasingly affects vulnerable and underserved population groups who are...
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Transmission of Tuberculosis from Patients with Typical Versus Atypical Chest Radiographs: Implications for Automated Systems
DownloadFall 2015
Automated detection of “typical” pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) on chest radiograph (CXR) is warranted if it can be shown that patients with “typical” (vs “atypical”) CXRs are responsible for most public health consequences. Patient demographics and mycobacteriology of all adults (age >14 years)...