Year: 1986
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Leprosy control programmes using methods of secondary prevention are in widespread use throughout the world.It is suggested that the most relevant method of assessing progress is by measuring the prevalence and incidence of disability.Disability assessment (WHO criteria) has been carried out in a control programme in India at baseline and now 4 years later.There has been liule change in the prevalence of leprosy over this period but the prevalence of disability has fallen from 91•4 to 62• 3 per 100,000.lt is likely that this fall is the result of the control programme since there is no evidence of a secular trend of reduced disability in leprosy in India.The mechanism ofthis fall is thought to be the loss of disabled patients through death and migration; these are not being replaced by new disabled patients.
Source: Leprosy Review
Authors: W. C. S. SMITH, S. M. PARKHE
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2417337222