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Socio-economic factors affecting TB patients are: 

1. General socioeconomic conditions of the society, culture and environment. This includes:

  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)  

  • Immigration  

  • Urbanisation 

  • Incidence of TB in the country   

  • Labour policy 

  • Access to healthcare 

2. Socioeconomic position of the individual. This includes:

  • Income 

  • Education 

  • Occupation  

  • Social class/ caste 

  • Indigenous/ tribal population 

  • Gender 

3. Living and working conditions. This includes: 

  • Housing conditions (overcrowding and poor ventilation especially in night shelters, de-addiction centres, old age homes, prisons) 

  • Employment conditions - Occupation with risk of developing TB (mines, coal industry, sand blasting industries, weaving & glass industries, stone-crushers, cotton mill workers, tea garden workers, rice mill workers, etc.,) 

  • Homelessness  

  • Hard to reach areas 

  • Urban slums 

3. Psychosocial risk factors, such as:  

  • Social exclusion 

  • Depression  

4. Individual lifestyle risk factors, such as:  

  • Smoking  

  • Alcohol abuse  

  • Tobbaco use 

  • Drug abuse  

  • Nutrition (malnutrition) 

  • Co-morbidities like diabetes mellitus, malignancies, patients on dialysis and on long term immunosuppressant therapy HIV, past history of TB 

 

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Socio-economic factors affecting TB patients are:

  1. Housing 

  1. Income 

  1. Access to healthcare 

  1. Alcohol abuse  

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TB is one of the few diseases which reflects and expresses social inequalities. Living conditions, economic conditions, lifestyle, and access, affordability, and availability of healthcare are factors which affect TB patients. 

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