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	Compare by Region: The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.
	Compare by Average: This gauge shows how the Marin County value compares with the median or mean value for all counties in the state (or all US counties). The gauge is blue and white when being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad and is multi-colored when being higher (or lower) is good or bad.
	Compare by Time Period: This gauge shows whether the Marin County value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not the Marin County value meets a specific target. The Marin County value is represented by the left bar and the target value by the right bar.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not a specific target is met. A green check means the target is met and a red "X" means the target is not met.

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Red > 8.5
Green <= 7.5
In-between = Yellow
Unit: cases/100,000 population
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Tuberculosis Incidence Rate

Value:	2.4 cases/100,000 population
Measurement Period:	2008
Location:	County : Marin
Categories:	Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases Health / Respiratory Diseases

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the average tuberculosis incidence rate in cases per 100,000 population.

Why this is important: Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs, although other parts of the body can also be affected. The TB bacteria are spread through the air when a person with untreated pulmonary TB coughs or sneezes. Prolonged exposure to a person with untreated TB is usually necessary for infection to occur. In 9 out of 10 exposed people, the immune system halts the spread of the infection and the infected person does not become sick or spread disease to others. The bacilli remain dormant, however, and can be activated if the immune system becomes severely weakened by HIV, diabetes, chemotherapy cancer treatments, or other causes. A person with TB disease is contagious until he/she has been on appropriate treatment for several days to weeks. The most important way to stop the spread of tuberculosis is for TB patients to cover the mouth and nose when coughing, and to take all TB medicine exactly as prescribed by their physician.

The Healthy People 2010 national health target is to reduce the tuberculosis incidence rate to 1.0 case per 100,000 population.

Technical note: The distribution for this indicator is based on data from 30 reporting California counties. Rates were not calculated for counties with less than 5 cases during the reporting period.

Source: California Dept. Public Health

URL of Source: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tb/Pages/default.aspx

URL of Data: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/Documents/TB_Repor...

Time Series Data

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Unit: cases/100,000 population
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Tuberculosis Incidence Rate

Value:	2.4 cases/100,000 population
Measurement Period:	2008
Location:	County : Marin
Categories:	Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases Health / Respiratory Diseases

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the tuberculosis incidence rate in cases per 100,000 population.

Why this is important: TB is a bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs, although other parts of the body can also be affected. The TB bacteria are spread through the air when a person with untreated pulmonary TB coughs or sneezes. Prolonged exposure to a person with untreated TB is usually necessary for infection to occur. In 9 out of 10 exposed people, the immune system halts the spread of the infection and the infected person does not become sick or spread disease to others. The bacilli remain dormant, however, and can be activated if the immune system becomes severely weakened by HIV, diabetes, chemotherapy cancer treatments, or other causes. A person with TB disease is contagious until he/she has been on appropriate treatment for several days to weeks. The most important way to stop the spread of tuberculosis is for TB patients to cover the mouth and nose when coughing, and to take all TB medicine exactly as prescribed by their physician.

The Healthy People 2010 national health target is to reduce the tuberculosis incidence rate to 1.0 case per 100,000 population.

Technical Note: The trend is a comparison between the most recent and previous measurement period. Confidence intervals were not taken into account in determining the direction of the trend.

Source: California Dept. Public Health

URL of Source: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tb/Pages/default.aspx

URL of Data: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/Documents/TB_Repor...

Time Series Data

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Target Not Met

Unit: cases/100,000 population
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Tuberculosis Incidence Rate

Value:	2.4 cases/100,000 population
Healthy People 2010 Target:	1.0 cases/100,000 population
Measurement Period:	2008
Location:	County : Marin
Categories:	Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases Health / Respiratory Diseases

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the tuberculosis incidence rate in cases per 100,000 population.

Why this is important: Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs, although other parts of the body can also be affected. The TB bacteria are spread through the air when a person with untreated pulmonary TB coughs or sneezes. Prolonged exposure to a person with untreated TB is usually necessary for infection to occur. In 9 out of 10 exposed people, the immune system halts the spread of the infection and the infected person does not become sick or spread disease to others. However, the bacilli remain dormant and can be activated if the immune system becomes severely weakened by HIV, diabetes, chemotherapy cancer treatments, or other causes. A person with TB disease is contagious until he/she has been on appropriate treatment for several days to weeks. The most important way to stop the spread of tuberculosis is for TB patients to cover the mouth and nose when coughing, and to take all TB medicine exactly as prescribed by their physician.

The Healthy People 2010 national health target is to reduce the tuberculosis incidence rate to 1.0 case per 100,000 population.

Source: California Dept. Public Health

URL of Source: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/tb/Pages/default.aspx

URL of Data: http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/Documents/TB_Repor...

Time Series Data

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