SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TUBERCULOSIS
A disease caused by a bacteria over 35,000 years old according to paleomicrobiology research, is currently a challenge for all public health systems. Tuberculosis was declared by World Health Organisation one of the world's priorities in a joint effort to eradicate it by 2050. Despite the med...
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| Language: | English |
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Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Challenges of the Knowledge Society |
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| Online Access: | http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2018_articles/index.php?dir=6_administrative_and_political_sciences%2F&download=CKS_2018_administrative_and_political_sciences_008.pdf |
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| Summary: | A disease caused by a bacteria over 35,000 years old according to paleomicrobiology research, is currently a
challenge for all public health systems. Tuberculosis was declared by World Health Organisation one of the world's priorities
in a joint effort to eradicate it by 2050. Despite the medical knowledge about the disease, analizing it from a sociological and
anthropological point of view could generate a better understating of the disease, it’s social factors and the complexity of the
context. Being the leading cause of death among the socio-professionally active population, with approximately 2 million
deaths annually, prior to the establishment of certain control and surveillance measures, it is necessary to we understand the
social factors and the costs of the disease, elements that increase the risk of infection / death, and what are the needs and
services to be addressed. Among the "costs" a patient faces, we can list: long-term and many adverse effects, the high risk of
abandonment to resume income-generating occupation, the risk of developing antibiotic resistance, lowering family incomes,
entering the vicious circle of poverty by lowering family incomes and increasing vulnerability.
In the following, a series of information on national and international contexts, behavioral, sociologycal,
antrophologycal and medical therapies and theories of TB are presented, in the desire to identify the main social factors
belonging to the universe of the field of study. At the same time, a great emphasis is placed on risk factors, on the needs of TB
patients but also on vulnerable groups. By understanding the whole social, economic, cultural and medical context, new
directions of study and new recommendations for practitioners in this field can be outlined in the prevention, control and
surveillance of a contagious disease. |
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| ISSN: | 2068-7796 2068-7796 |