.png "Philippines Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people)")
| Data: | Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SH.TBS.INCD | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Risk factors | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Incidence of tuberculosis is the estimated number of new pulmonary, smear positive, and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis cases. Incidence includes patients with HIV. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | The limited
availability of data on health status is a major constraint in assessing the
health situation in developing countries. Surveillance data are lacking for
many major public health concerns. Estimates of prevalence and incidence are
available for some diseases but are often unreliable and incomplete. National
health authorities differ widely in capacity and willingness to collect or
report information. To compensate for this and improve reliability and
international comparability, the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares
estimates in accordance with epidemiological models and statistical
standards. Uncertainty bounds for the iincidence are available at http://data.worldbank. |
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| Notes from original source: | Estimates are presented with uncertainty intervals (see footnote). When ranges are presented, the lower and higher numbers correspond to the 2.5th and 97.5th centiles of the outcome distributions (generally produced by simulations). For more detailed information, see the original source. | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Tuberculosis is one of the main causes of adult deaths from a single infectious agent in developing countries. In developed countries tuberculosis has reemerged largely as a result of cases among immigrants. Since tuberculosis incidence cannot be directly measured, estimates are obtained by eliciting expert opinion or are derived from measurements of prevalence or mortality. | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
