TERRITORIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE TUBERCULOSIS MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY TREND IN THE REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA
Journal: Bulletin physiology and pathology of respiration
Year: 2017

The research objective is to study the epidemiological situation on tuberculosis (TB) in the Republic of Crimea (RC) on the basis of territorial differentiation of TB morbidity and mortality trend during 2004-2015 with the use of multidimensional statistics method. We applied k-means clustering. The official statistics of TB morbidity and mortality for the period of 2004-2015 were provided by the "Crimean Republican Clinical Center of Phthisiology and Pulmonology". The grouping of Crimean territ