Publication

CPHO Spotlight on Eliminating Tuberculosis in Canada

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Full Citation:

2018. CPHO Spotlight on Eliminating Tuberculosis in Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada.

Additional key concepts from this publication:

Inequities exist in marginalized populations and minority groups who may have poorer access to health services, including immunizations.

Key Evidence: Native populations experience barriers to health care access such as limited knowledge, stigma, community social isolation, and geographic isolation. As a result, Inuit populations in Canada suffer 300 times higher rates of TB than the Canadian-born non-Indigenous population.

Children from poorer refugee and migrant families have less access to health services and lower vaccination rates than the surrounding population.

Key Evidence: Recent migrants face barriers to accessing health care including language and cultural barriers, limited knowledge, food and housing insecurity, stress, and lack of resources available during prolonged travel. In Canada, though foreign-born populations make up only 22% of the total population, 70% of active tuberculosis cases occurred in this population.