This study suggests that MDR-TB, local ethnicity, coronary heart disease, history of drug abuse and treatment non-compliance are factors predicting poor survival in drug-resistant TB patients.
Data from the studied population might not be representative for the whole Germany – in fact one can expect differences based on variation in social status and local ethnicity mix.
The forests of Nam Đông were traditionally used by Katu people (local minority ethnicity); today ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) represent the majority (60%) of inhabitants in more urban areas of the district (Wetterwald 2003).
In contrast to past local studies, ethnicity was not found to be significantly associated with the onset of mental disorders.
Details on primary care physician, pharmacy, residence and principal next of kin were deemed important as local and ethnicity were deemed factors in service uptake and delivery.
The sites were selected to represent a variety of ethnicities, local cultures, and climatic regions.
Through major progressive initiatives like labor laws, police reform, and the movement to build playgrounds, state and local leaders "disassociated ethnicity, or nationality, or European-ness from criminality," Muhammad told me.
His "Shia crescent" tag went down badly because it was simply too frank; it was simplistic, too, smoothing over local factors of ethnicity and nationalism to provide a single, overarching explanation.
The last component (C-VII) comprises a mixture of different socio-cultural characteristics including membership in local institutions (MEMLIQA), ethnicity (ETHINI) numbers of relatives inside (RLINKBL) and outside (RLOUTKBL) the kebele.
Despite this, local alliances transcended ethnicity during the Dutch period.
