A Seven-year epidemiological review of tuberculosis in the circumpolar region 2006 - 2012
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Description:Created in 1998, the overall goal of the International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) project is to establish an integrated network of hospital and public health facilities throughout the Arctic countries to monitor infectious diseases of concern Tuberculosis (TB) was set as a priority among the ICS network as it was apparent that certain circumpolar jurisdictions still carried a significant burden of TB and the emergence of multi-drug-resistant strains was becoming an issue in some of those jurisdictions Consequently, the International Circumpolar Surveillance – Tuberculosis (ICS-TB) Working Group was created in November 2006
The ICS-TB Working Group initiated a review of TB notifications to improve understanding of the epidemiology of TB in the circumpolar region The main objective of this project is to analyze demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of TB disease in northern populations to assess disease trends and incidence across circumpolar regions The ultimate project goal is to establish baseline data on TB cases which will be updated through ongoing annual surveillance to inform TB prevention and control in circumpolar regions
It has been agreed among the participating jurisdictions that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will be the custodian of the ICS-TB data as well as the technical lead for this project Therefore a bilateral “ICS-TB Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Sharing of Information in Relation to Tuberculosis in the North Circumpolar Populations” was developed and voluntarily signed between the PHAC and by nine of the ten participating jurisdictions [Canada (Northwest Territories, Nunavik, Nunavut, Yukon), Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Russian Federation (Arkhangelsk), United States (Alaska) and Finland], which provided aggregated data versus line listed data, did not require an MoU
This report uses a common case definition and presents core data elements which were established by the ICS-TB Working Group All active TB cases reported from 2006 to 2012 that met the case definition were analyzed Distribution of TB incidence by jurisdiction, age and sex, TB diagnostic sites, indicators for TB drug resistance and treatment outcome were calculated
From 2006 to 2012, TB disease incidence rates ranged from 43 to 1995 cases per 100,000 population across participating jurisdictions The burden of TB is spread across all age groups in the ICS-TB jurisdictions, with the highest incidence rate being among individuals 15 to 24 years old for three jurisdictions Median age of cases ranged from 20 to 46 years old The incidence rate ranged from 47 to 2360 cases per 100,000 in males and from 38 to 1829 cases per 100,000 population in females
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