Over in Norway they are
testing migrants for TB and what was the result?
Just 1% of the study group received treatment for latent tuberculosis and with a long time delay. The reason for this may be organizational factors affecting follow-up and referral and specialists not following current guidelines.
So they did a
study on it
Public health efforts to increase awareness about TB transmission, its diversity in manifestations, and its progression from latent to active disease, may decrease patient delay. An increased awareness among health professionals about typical and atypical symptoms of TB, aspects of the patient’s history, and being aware and sensitive to patients’ own interpretation of symptoms may reduce diagnostic delay in the health services.
The problem then is how do policy makers ensure that stakeholders are properly informed without incurring additional horrendous expense? Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube or Twitter are now
considered to be legitimate communication tools of
government.
