Tuberculosis Action Plan
UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
MSc PUBLIC HEALTH
PRINCIPLES, POLICIES AND ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH MODULE
UNIT CODE: PUB017-6
ACTION PLAN
ELIMINATION OF TUBERCULOSIS FROM PAKISTAN
LECTURER: DR HALA EVANS
Student Number: 1228034
Table of contents
Content page
Background 3
Key characteristic 3
Theme 3
Policy/New initiative 4
Strategies 4
Impact/service delivery 5
References 6-7
Background
This action plan is the key knowledge for a briefing paper for the prevention of highly pandemic disease tuberculosis in Pakistan. The main purpose of this action plan to build more effective policies and strong strategies to stop the transmission of the tuberculosis and to eliminate this from Pakistan.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, usually mycobacterium tuberculosis, it spreads through air and transmission of respiratory fluid of the people with active tuberculosis infection (kumar et al, 2007). A study suggests that approximately 1/3 of the world’s population has tuberculosis
FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
MSc PUBLIC HEALTH
PRINCIPLES, POLICIES AND ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH MODULE
UNIT CODE: PUB017-6
ACTION PLAN
ELIMINATION OF TUBERCULOSIS FROM PAKISTAN
LECTURER: DR HALA EVANS
Student Number: 1228034
Table of contents
Content page
Background 3
Key characteristic 3
Theme 3
Policy/New initiative 4
Strategies 4
Impact/service delivery 5
References 6-7
Background
This action plan is the key knowledge for a briefing paper for the prevention of highly pandemic disease tuberculosis in Pakistan. The main purpose of this action plan to build more effective policies and strong strategies to stop the transmission of the tuberculosis and to eliminate this from Pakistan.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, usually mycobacterium tuberculosis, it spreads through air and transmission of respiratory fluid of the people with active tuberculosis infection (kumar et al, 2007). A study suggests that approximately 1/3 of the world’s population has tuberculosis
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