Markets and Mycobacteria – A Comprehensive Analysis of the Infuence of Urbanization on Leprosy and Tuberculosis Prevalence in Denmark (AD 1200–1536)

Kelmelis, Kirsten Saige; Kristensen, Vicki Rytoft Lillegaard; Alexandersen, Mette; Pedersen, Dorthe Dangvard

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53417-2_7

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“…A study was conducted to analyze the relationship between urbanization and disease frequencyspecifically tuberculosis. There were significant differences in survival for those with and without tuberculosisrelated lesions between sites, but there were no significant differences between urban and rural sites (Kelmelis et al, 2020). In this recent study Fifty-nine percent (59%) TB patients were from urban area 41% TB patients were from rural area as shown in figure 2 but no significant association was seen between them.…”

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Awareness Regarding Hygienic Practices in Tuberculosis Patients of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

Tariq

Arshad

Ashfaq

et al. 2021

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Worldwide, in a working-age population the tuberculosis poses a vital health care load among young adults. As the prevalence of tuberculosis increased, therate of morbidity and mortality also increased. The objective of the study was to assess the awareness regarding hygienic practices among tuberculosis patients visiting Tertiary Care Hospital Lahore. A cross-sectional study was carried out at the chest department of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore during November-2018 to January- 2019.A sample of 100 samples of tuberculosis patients was selected through nonprobability convenient sampling technique. Patients were assessed through pre-tested questionnaire. SPSS version 21.0 was used for data analysis. Among 100 participants, 55 patients were female and 45 patients were male. The prevalence of extra pulmonary TB is more in female 33% than male 21%. The mean age of the patients was 35 years. 63% TB patients cannot covered their face with mask when they cough or sneeze; 37 % TB patients had covered their faces with mask when they cough or sneeze. Total 79% TB patient’s houses were good ventilated while 21% TB patient’s houses or rooms were not ventilated. It was concluded that an increased family size, poor hygienic environment and low socioeconomic status were major determinants of tuberculosis

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confidence: 68%

Awareness Regarding Hygienic Practices in Tuberculosis Patients of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

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“…102 Paleoepidemiologists recognize the difficulties and nuances of studying the physical manifestations of diseases in skeletal remains and are careful not to apply modern epidemiology of diseases to their historical expressions. 103 has been operationalized broadly, for example, in studies including but not limited to the gradient of socioeconomic inequality and TB in medieval and early modern Denmark, 106 how the emergence of urbanization affected TB and leprosy prevalence, 107,108 and holistic determinants of vitamin D deficiency leading to numerous health problems, including TB. 109 Additionally, paleopathological research on TB skeletal lesions in Peru specifically operationalizes the colonial period as biocultural context.…”

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Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history

Doren

2022

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Anthropologists recognize the importance of conceptualizing health in the context of the mutually evolving nature of biology and culture through the biocultural approach, but biocultural anthropological perspectives of infectious diseases and their impacts on humans (and vice versa) through time are relatively underrepresented. Tuberculosis (TB) has been a constant companion of humans for thousands of years and has heavily influenced population health in almost every phase of cultural and demographic evolution. TB in human populations has been dramatically influenced by behavior, demographic and epidemiological shifts, and other comorbidities through history. This paper critically discusses TB and some of its major comorbidities through history within a biocultural framework to show how transitions in human demography and culture affected the disease‐scape of TB. In doing so, I address the potential synthesis of biocultural and epidemiological transition theory to better comprehend the mutual evolution of infectious diseases and humans.

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“…Results of such studies also provide a confounding picture with no clear patterns emerging overall for urban versus rural contexts. Kelmelis et al (2020) investigate the prevalence of leprosy and TB in multiple urban and rural sites in medieval Denmark (1120( -1536. Their results suggest a complicated relationship between these diseases and settlement pattern, with rural and transitional settlements having higher rates of leprosy compared to urban settlements, but no significant different in TB rates among settlement types.…”

Section: Infection and Diseasementioning

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Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

Betsinger

DeWitte

2021

American J Phys Anthropol

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Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.

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Markets and Mycobacteria – A Comprehensive Analysis of the Infuence of Urbanization on Leprosy and Tuberculosis Prevalence in Denmark (AD 1200–1536)

Cited by 4 publications

References 59 publications

Awareness Regarding Hygienic Practices in Tuberculosis Patients of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

Awareness Regarding Hygienic Practices in Tuberculosis Patients of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore

Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history

Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past

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