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Controlling Tuberculosis in China Presence of Vulnerable Groups Case Study

 

Assignment for Case Study # 1

Besides the information you have been provided in the case study and your book conduct a search on the World Wide Web and answer the following questions:

  • What are some of the factors that contribute to the high burden of TB in China?
  • What other countries have the highest burden of multidrug-resistant TB?  What do you think explains this pattern?
  • Is directly observed therapy coercive?  Why or why not?  Under what conditions does the state have the right to require individuals with communicable diseases to undergo treatment?
  • In addition to the implementation of the DOTS program, what else should the Chinese government be doing to reduce the burden of TB?