Mortality from Respiratory Tuberculosis in Switzerland

Overview

Journal Soz Praventivmed

Specialties Public Health
Social Sciences

Date 1998 Aug 11

PMID 9697255

Citations 4

Authors

H L Rieder

M Zwahlen

H Zimmermann

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Abstract

Since 1901, the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics has published at least each decade detailed mortality statistics from tuberculosis. These cross-sectional data on deaths from respiratory tuberculosis from 1901 to 1991 were utilized to analyse retrospectively tuberculosis death experience within each birth cohort. The cross-sectional data indicate that tuberculosis mortality increases with age in each successive decade. Nevertheless, the cohort-contour approach indicates that this phenomenon is the result of a much higher mortality that each cohort experienced in their early adulthood, and that mortality form respiratory tuberculosis in Switzerland always preferentially affected the young. The data also indicate that tuberculosis mortality in Switzerland has been decreasing for at least 160 years, and perhaps peaked as early as in the eighteenth century.

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