Current Status on Training and Education on Public and Healthcare Workers towards Tuberculosis Elimination: Case in South Korea

Abstract

Tuberculosis, despite global effort to eliminate tuberculosis, still remains as a high burden to global public health. For tuberculosis elimination to be achieved, trainings and educations play pivotal role, tuberculosis control and prevention in particular. Internationally, several organizations are in charge of tuberculosis training and education program design, especially in its preparation and dissemination. In case of Korea, TB prevalence remains high, 59.0 per 100,000 in 2019. To overcome TB, institutes from both governmental and public sectors are organizing and providing tuberculosis-related training and education programs however, only few investigations on tuberculosis training in Korea was carried out, indicating difficulty lies in understanding and analyzing current TB training and education landscape. Hence, in this study, we have reviewed each institute and their roles in terms TB training and educational aspects as well as current tuberculosis status and strategies employed in Korea. Also, there are limitation lies in tuberculosis training and education thus, the call for global cooperation is necessary to response regional consideration against tuberculosis.