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June 2005, Vol 95, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 933-934
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.046763

LETTER

LOWERED TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFICATIONS AND DETERRED HEALTH CARE SEEKING DURING THE SARS EPIDEMIC IN HONG KONG

Masao Ichikawa, PhD, MPH, Shinji Nakahara, MD, MS and Susumu Wakai, MD, PhD

The authors are with the Department of Community Health, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Masao Ichikawa, PhD, MPH, Department of Community Health, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan (e-mail: masao@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Chang et al., using National Health Insurance data, reported significant reductions in medical service utilization at the peak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Taiwan.1 This finding may be supported by other evidence from Hong Kong: lowered tuberculosis notifications. Our assumption is that deterred health care seeking during the epidemic resulted in the lowered detection, and thus notification, of tuberculosis.

To examine the recent trend of tuberculosis notifications in Hong Kong, we calculated the average monthly number of notifications (incidence) per 100 000 population and its 95% confidence interval from January 1997 to December 2002, using the . . . [Full Text]






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