The epidemiology of adult lung disease in Botswana

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 775-782

  Steen, T W ^a   Aruwa, J E O ^a   Hone, N M ^a  

^a City of Oslo Public Health Authority   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adult lung disease; Botswana; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTHMA; BOTSWANA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0034900518     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. After health sector reform, whither lung health?
2. Ngaka ya setswana, ngaka ya sekgoa or both? Health seeking behaviour in Botswana with pulmonary tuberculosis
3. Low levels of drug resistance amidst rapidly increasing tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus co-epidemics in Botswana
4. Normal pulmonary function in Botswana
5. Morbidity and health care utilisation among elderly people in Mmankgodi village, Botswana
6. Pulmonary tuberculosis in Kweneng District, Botswana: Delays in diagnosis in 212 smear-positive patients
7. Prevalence of occupational lung disease among Botswana men formerly employed in the South African mining industry
8. Epidemiology unit annual report 1983
9. A historical review of the patterns of morbidity in Botswana
10. South African tuberculosis mortality data - Showing the first sign of the AIDS epidemic?
11. Aetiology, outcome, and risk factors for mortality among adults with acute pneumonia in Kenya
12. Analysis of hospital records in four African countries, 1975-1990, with emphasis on infectious diseases
13. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Zimbabwe
14. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV infected patients from South Africa
15. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Africa
16. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Africa
17. What causes smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Malawi, an area of high HIV seroprevalence?
18. The cases of cancer seen at a Botswana hospital 1968-72
19. A retrospective study of the cancer patterns among hospital in-patients in Botswana 1960-72
20. Lung cancer, tobacco, and environmental factors in the African population of the Northern Province, South Africa
21. Prevalence of asthma in Rhodesian Africans
22. Prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Rhodesian Africans
23. Prevalence of occupational lung disease in a random sample of former mineworkers, Libode District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
24. Occupational lung disease
25. Bacterial pneumonia