TY - BOOK ID - 149885611 TI - Tuberculosis Prevalence Surveys : A handbook AU - Organization, World Health. AU - World Health Organization PY - 2011 SN - 9240688099 PB - Geneva : World Health Organization, DB - UniCat KW - Public health surveillance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - Tuberculosis -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. KW - Tuberculosis -- Prevention. KW - Tuberculosis. KW - Tuberculosis KW - Public health surveillance KW - Lung Diseases KW - Tuberculosis KW - Epidemiologic Studies KW - Health Surveys KW - Public Health Practice KW - Information Science KW - Respiratory Tract Infections KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic KW - Public Health KW - Respiratory Tract Diseases KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Mycobacterium Infections KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Disease. KW - Actinomycetales Infections KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections KW - Delivery of Health Care. KW - Bacterial Infections KW - Bacterial Infections and Mycoses KW - Cross-Sectional Studies KW - Tuberculosis, Pulmonary KW - Data Collection KW - Population Surveillance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149885611 AB - The first edition of this book Assessing tuberculosis prevalence through population-based surveys was published by the World Health Organization in 2007. Its aim was to provide guidance to countries about how to estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) disease through population-based surveys. Designed for TB experts survey investigators researchers and advisers at national and international levels the red book (as it soon came to be known) explained the core survey methods including calculation of sample sizes strategies for screening and diagnosis case definitions field operations and ho ER -