Impact of Employment and Unemployment Levels on Tuberculosis Incidence and Mortality Rate in Population

Abstract

Introduction. The organization of countering the spread of tuberculosis, as a socially determined disease, remains relevant. Purpose. Assess the relationship between unemployment and employment rates with tuberculosis morbidity and mortality in Russia. Materials and methods. The analysis of the correlations of time series of values of tuberculosis morbidity and mortality rates, unemployment and employment rates of the population in the context of 85 constituent entities of Russia in the period of 2014–2020 years was carried out using the correlation coefficient with subsequent assessment of its reliability. Results and discussion. A reliable correlation was established between the studied socio-economic factors and main indicators characterizing tuberculosis epidemic situation. Similar results have been obtained in a number of other studies.