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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2004, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 78-80.

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Evaluation on tuberculosis control measures in Wuha n 1989-2000

Xie Hong,Zeng Qingzhi,Fang Cuihong,et al.   

  1. The office of the Epidemiological Survey for Tuberculosis of Wuhan,Wuhan 430030
  • Online:2004-02-10 Published:2004-11-03

Abstract: Objective To improve tuberculosis control measures and accelerate tuberculosis control in Wuhan.Methods To analyze the Results of the latest tuberculosis epidemiological survey and the reported data in Wuhan and to evaluate the effects of World Bank Loaned Tuberculosis Con trol Project from 1989 to 2000 in Wuhan.Results Since the imple mentation of the project,the case rate of smear positive case and concerned cure rate were rise continuously.The highest one were 3411/100000,95.9% respe ctively.But the case detation rate was still lower (28.2%).Conclusion In spite of the improvement of tuberculosis control measures in last 11 years,the eff iciency of tuberculosis control was unremarkable.That was ascribed to the lower case finding rate.In order to accelerate tuberculosis control,tuberculosis control practices should be integrated into primary healthy care network and case finding and other mearsures should be improved.

Key words: Pulmonary,tuberculosis/prevention and control, Wuha n city