The Korean Journal of Medicine

The Korean Association of Internal Medicine (대한내과학회)
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Current Status of Tuberculosis in Korea

한국에서의 결핵현황

  • Kim, Hee-Jin (Korean Institute of Tuberculosis, Korean National Tuberculosis Association)
  • 김희진 (대한결핵협회 결핵연구원)
  • Published : 2012.03.01
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Abstract

Tuberculosis is still a serious communicable disease in Korea. The prevalence of tuberculosis had been rapidly decreased in pastby the country widely expanded national control program, improvement of nutrition and development of medical services. However, decline of tuberculosis is recently stagnated because of increase of aged population and the prevalence of other chronic disease such as diabetes. The registry number of new tuberculosis patients was 36,305 and 2,365 cases were died of tuberculosis in 2010. Proportion of retreatment cases which is caused by the improper patient care is much higher than other countries. Public-private collaboration system to improve management of tuberculosis patients treating from the private sector has been recently implemented. However, directly observed treatment which is known as an international standard of patient care and adopted by the most of the countries have to be implemented to accelerate the decline of tuberculosis morbidity and improve patient care.

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