tailieunhanh - Gender in Tuberculosis Research

This document was prepared for the WHO Gender and Health Research Series by Daryl Somma, MPH; Christian Auer, PhD; Abdallah Abouihia, MSc; and Mitchell G. Weiss, MD, PhD, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland. The authors would like to express their thanks to the following individuals who provided valuable input to the section on cultural epidemiology: MR Chowdhury and F Karim, BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh; S Jawahar and S Ganapathy, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India; J Kemp, I Makwiza and L Sanudi, The Equi-TB Knowledge Programme, Lilongwe, Malawi; and E Jaramillo and N Arias, Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas, Cali, Colombia | Gender and Health Research Series .S2 Ỡ5 Research ểẩỀằ World Health Organization Gender in Tuberculosis Resea rc h w rld . Organization Department of Gender Women and Health Family and Community Health Gender in tuberculosis research WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Gender in tuberculosis research by Daryl Somma . et al. . Gender and health research series 1. Tuberculosis Pulmonary - epidemiology 2. Tuberculosis Pulmonary - ethnology 3. Treatment outcome 4. Health services accessibility 5. Gender identity factors 7. Research Daryl. . ISBN 92 4 159251 6 NLM classification W ISSN 1813-2812 World Health Organization 2005 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from WHO Press World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel 41 22 791 2476 fax 41 22 791 4857 email bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to WHO Press at the above address fax 41 22 791 4806 email permissions@ . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by WHO to verify the information contained in this .