PHWR Public Health Weekly Report

Vol.17 No.11, March 21, 2024 Article TypeQuickStatsSurveillance Reports

• Surveillance Reports 2024-03-21

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  Characteristics and Trends in Deaths from Tuberculosis in the Republic of Korea, 2022

  Hyewon Lee, Jinsun Kim, Gwangja Park, Hoyong Choi*

  Public Health Weekly Report 2024; 17(11): 421-437 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2024.17.11.1

  

  

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  Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. According to Cause-of-death statistics from the Statistics Korea, the number of TB (A15–A19) deaths in 2022 was 1,322 (2.6 per 100,000 population). TB was the second leading infectious cause of death after coronavirus disease 2019. The number of deaths decreased by 7.6% from the previous year (n=1,430, 2.8 per 100,000 population). The number of TB deaths decreased by a total of 46.4% from 2012 to 2022. The active promotion of the national TB management policies by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) may have contributed to the downward trend in TB deaths. The KDCA will continue to implement national TB control programs to achieve a further decrease in the number of TB deaths and end TB.

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  Review on Global Burden of Tuberculosis in 2022

  Hyewon Lee, Jinsun Kim, Hoyong Choi*

  Public Health Weekly Report 2024; 17(11): 438-451 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2024.17.11.2

  

  

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  Globally, an estimated 10.6 million people (133 persons per 100,000 population) fell ill with tuberculosis ( TB) in 2022, an increase of 2.9% from 10.3 million (131 persons per 100,000 population) in 2021. The number of TB deaths in 2022 is estimated at 1.3 million, a decrease of 6.4% from 1.39 million in 2021. The Republic of Korea (ROK) ranked 107th among 219 countries with an estimated TB incidence of 39 persons per 100,000 population, and ranked 107th in TB mortality with an estimated TB mortality of 3.8 persons per 100,000 population among 218 countries (except for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). Among the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, ROK ranked 2 nd in TB incidence and 4 th in TB mortality. The World Health Organization established ‘ The End TB Strategy,’ which aims for an 80% reduction in TB incidence and a 90% reduction in the number of TB deaths between 2015 and 2030. The strategy included the second milestone, which is a 50% reduction in TB incidence and a 75% reduction in the number of TB deaths between 2015 and 2025. In global efforts to end TB by 2030, The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency announced the ‘ The Third National Strategic Plan for TB Control in the Republic of Korea, 2023–2027’. The plan aims to implement more effective TB control policies to reduce TB incidence to below 20 persons per 100,000 population by 2027 and below 10 persons per 100,000 population by 2030.

• QuickStats 2024-03-21

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  Trends in Prevalence of Aerobic Physical Activity, 2014–2022

  Public Health Weekly Report 2024; 17(11): 452-453 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2024.17.11.3

  

  

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