These educational modules are designed to provide basic information about tuberculosis (TB) in a self-study format for new TB health care workers. This instructional packet includes a series of five modules, an introduction, a glossary, and content covering transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment of TB infection and disease, and infection control...
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Outreach Workers
2019
This webpage provides a brief overview on what health department staff need to know abut the TB Technical Instructions. Technical Instructions are the requirements that civil surgeons and panel physicians must follow when evaluating persons as part of their application process.
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Civil Surgeons
2019
Health Literacy: New Field, New Opportunities is an online tutorial designed for health and literacy educators interested in addressing health literacy barriers to good health in their work. The tutorial was developed by World Education with funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region (NN/NL NER)...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2019
The video is intended to provide overall guidance and interviewing techniques.
Viewers are presented an overview of interviewing for TB contact investigation, excerpts of a TB interview and a re-interview, and commentary from experts in the field. The checklist focuses on critical elements of a TB interview.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
2019
This series of three videos aims to help providers talk to their patients about latent TB infection testing and treatment. Each of the videos are two-minutes long. The topics covered include:
•Why Should I Get Testing for Latent TB?
•Why Do I Need Treatment for Latent TB?
•I Received the BCG Vaccine: Do I Still Need Latent TB Testing and Treatment?
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Health Educators/Communicators
2019
This fact sheet provides information on home and hospital isolation for patients with infectious TB disease.
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2019
The webinar presents information about the risk of TB among refugees from TB endemic countries and the challenges that influence their ability and willingness to see a health care provider after arriving to the US. The webinar also discusses factors that may affect U.S. health care providers’ ability to effectively evaluate and treat refugees for TB and LTBI.
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2019
Someone with untreated latent TB infection and diabetes is more likely to develop TB disease than someone without diabetes. Without proper treatment, diabetes and TB can increase health complications. This webpage features information on the relationship between TB and diabetes, TB treatment for individuals with diabetes, and related links for patients and health care providers.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Persons With LTBI
2019
This webinar provides information on the identification of patients at high risk for progression to active disease. The presenters also discuss challenges for treatment completion, such as co-morbidities, risky behaviors, and other medications that may interfere with treatment.
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2019
This poster is intended to encourage health care workers to advise clients that if conditions of tuberculosis (TB) symptoms last more than 2-3 weeks, to avoid group settings and see a medical provider immediately.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Nurses
Physicians
2019
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This report is updated annually.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2019
This report presents summary data for U.S. TB cases reported to the Division of TB Elimination, CDC, during 2018.
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Policy Makers
2019
This resources summarizes TB screening and testing information for health care personnel and caregivers. Topics covered include screening and testing upon hire, testing after a TB exposure event, and annual training and screening.
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Managers and Supervisors
2019
Popularly known as “The Orange Guide”, the 7th edition this guide provides practical guidance to health workers on the front line of TB control. The guide has been updated with new information on the management of persons with TB infection, bacteriological diagnosis of tuberculosis, treatment of drug-resistant TB, and more.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2019
The one-page document provides a general timeline of care for patients undergoing treatment for TB disease.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Persons With LTBI
2019
