Social protection and tuberculosis control in 21 European countries, 1995–2012: a cross-national statistical modelling analysis

WHO stresses the need to act on the social determinants of tuberculosis. We tested whether alternative social protection programmes have affected tuberculosis case notifications, prevalence, and mortality, and case detection and treatment success rates in 21 European countries from 1995 to 2012.We obtained tuberculosis case notification data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's 2014 European Surveillance System database....