Introducing risk inequality metrics in tuberculosis policy development

Failure to account for heterogeneity in TB risk can mislead model-based evaluation of proposed interventions. Here, the authors introduce a metric to estimate the distribution of risk in populations from routinely collected data and find that variation in infection acquisition is the most impactful.

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Main Authors: M. Gabriela M. Gomes, Juliane F. Oliveira, Adelmo Bertolde, Diepreye Ayabina, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Ethel L. Maciel, Raquel Duarte, Binh Hoa Nguyen, Priya B. Shete, Christian Lienhardt
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/4f358ed732c04f24a4899204126ee64f
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