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7 Mobilizing for Elimination
7 Mobilizing for Elimination
Pages 159-168
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Advocacy to influence policy makers and education of patients, health care providers, and the general public are critical activities. A World Health Organization ad hoc committee identified the lack of political will on the part of national governments as a fundamental constraint to developing and sustaining effective tuberculosis control programs.
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Social mobilization has been identified as a vital prerequisite to accelerating the decline of tuberculosis in the United States. In March 1998, the World Health Organization convened an ad hoc committee on tuberculosis to analyze individual countries' abilities to reach year 2000 targets for tuberculosis control.
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The Committee found the use of the media to create a climate of public interest and concern critical to sustaining policy maker and government interest. All four factors represent challenges in social mobilization in the United States.
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. The purpose of such mobilization is to help build and sustain adequate political and financial support by key leaders and policy makers as well as to engage the active participation and cooperation of health care providers, members of high-risk groups, and patients themselves in a combined assault on the disease.
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To build the level of political will that is required, all relevant sectors of society are needed to help and must be convinced that it is in their interest to achieve this worthwhile goal. The United States has a long history of social mobilization efforts tied to tuberculosis control.
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The continued lack of social mobilization efforts would result in the continued low level of funding as the resurgence of tuberculosis appeared. In 1984, lames Mason, who was then director of the Centers for Disease Control, called upon the public health community to develop a plan for the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States.
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was established by the American Lung Association with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to reengineer the social mobilization effort. The mobilization efforts of NCET combined with the blueprint for program design in the strategic plan are, in large part, responsible for the significant increase in tuberculosis control resources described in Chapter 2 (see the box National Coalition to Eliminate Tuberculosis)
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; 6. schools of medicine and schools of public health (awareness and increased efforts)
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1989. A strategic plan for the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States.
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