tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " The production of consumption: addressing the impact of mineral mining on tuberculosis in southern Africa"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The production of consumption: addressing the impact of mineral mining on tuberculosis in southern Africa | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Open Access Debate The production of consumption addressing the impact of mineral mining on tuberculosis in southern Africa Sanjay Basu 1 2 David Stuckler3 Gregg Gonsalves4 and Mark Lurie5 Address Department of Medicine University of California San Francisco CA USA 2Division of General Internal Medicine San Francisco General Hospital CA USA 3University of Oxford Department of Sociology Oxford Oxfordshire UK 4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CT USA and 5Department of Community Health Brown University Medical School Providence RI USA Email Sanjay Basu - David Stuckler - Gregg Gonsalves - Mark Lurie - Mark_Lurie@ Corresponding author Published 29 September 2009 Received 23 June 2009 J . . rii j-. iinz i-zzznzz rii Accepted 29 September 2009 Globalization and Health 2009 5 11 doi l 744-8603-5-11 This article is available from http content 5 1 1 1 2009 Basu et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background Miners in southern Africa experience incident rates of tuberculosis up to ten times greater than the general population. Migration to and from mines may be amplifying tuberculosis epidemics in the general population. Discussion Migration to and from mineral mines contributes to HIV risks and associated tuberculosis incidence. Health and safety conditions within mines also promote the risk of silicosis a tuberculosis risk factor and transmission of tuberculosis bacilli in close quarters. In the context of migration .