Despite decades of research and public health interventions, tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a significant global health challenge. Can We Eradicate Tuberculosis? A Review of Obstacles to Eliminate the Disease explores the persistent barriers to TB elimination, examining the medical, socioeconomic, cultural, and healthcare-system factors that continue to affect prevention and control efforts.
About the Book
This book provides an in-depth examination of why tuberculosis remains difficult to eliminate, even with established diagnostic and treatment approaches. It explores the influence of poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition, limited access to healthcare, diagnostic delays, treatment adherence, inadequate funding, and drug resistance on the continued spread of the disease.
Moving beyond a purely biomedical perspective, the book highlights the relationship between social conditions, healthcare infrastructure, and the effectiveness of TB control programs. It also considers opportunities to strengthen prevention, improve early diagnosis and treatment, raise public awareness, and promote coordinated action among healthcare professionals, policymakers, and public health organizations.
By bringing these interconnected challenges into focus, the book offers valuable insights for professionals working to improve tuberculosis control and advance evidence-based public health strategies.
Key Features
- Examines the major obstacles to global tuberculosis elimination.
- Explores the biological, social, economic, and cultural factors contributing to the persistence of TB.
- Discusses healthcare-system limitations, diagnostic gaps, and barriers to treatment adherence.
- Addresses drug-resistant tuberculosis and its implications for disease control.
- Highlights opportunities for improved prevention, public health policy, healthcare delivery, and international collaboration.
Readership
This book is intended for public health professionals, epidemiologists, physicians, tuberculosis researchers, policymakers, healthcare administrators, and students of public health and global health. It will also be relevant to professionals involved in infectious disease management, tuberculosis prevention programs, and the development of healthcare policies.
About the Author
Dr. Rafael Laniado-Laborín is a Professor of Medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico, and a pulmonologist at Tijuana General Hospital. With more than 40 years of clinical experience in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, his research has focused on drug-resistant tuberculosis, molecular diagnosis, and TB epidemiology. He has contributed to World Health Organization guidelines on drug-resistant tuberculosis and has served as Chair of the WHO Regional Green Light Committee of the Americas.
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Explore Can We Eradicate Tuberculosis? A Review of Obstacles to Eliminate the Disease to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing global TB control and the strategies needed to address them.
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