Neighborhood Poverty and the Resurgence of Tuberculosis in New York City, 19841992
R. Graham Barr, MD, MPH,
Ana V. Diez-Roux, MD, PhD,
Charles A. Knirsch, MD, MPH and
Ariel Pablos-Méndez, MD, MPH
R. Graham Barr, Ana V. Diez-Roux, and Ariel Pablos-Méndez are with the Division of General Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dr Barr is also with the General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Dr Diez-Roux and Dr Pablos-Méndez are also with the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Charles A. Knirsch is with the Division of Infectious Disease, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dr Pablos-Méndez is also with the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.

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FIGURE 1 Geographic association of tuberculosis and neighborhood poverty in New York City in 1992.
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FIGURE 2 Tuberculosis incidence in New York City in 1992 plotted by decile of neighborhood rates of poverty and abject poverty.
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FIGURE 3 Incidence of tuberculosis in New York City in 1984 and 1992 plotted by change in neighborhood median household income from 1980 to 1990.
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