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제목 |
Comment on Leprosy Control in Korea |
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저자 |
DR. Dharmendra |
소속 |
: WHO Leprosy Consultant Ministry of Health and Social Affairs Repubic of Korea |
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년도 |
1967 |
권 |
4 |
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호 |
1 |
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시작페이지 |
119 |
끝페이지 |
123 |
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요약 |
The following observations can be made on the information collected from the various
reports and on the findings made at the various places visited.
(1) Fortunately the public health problem created by leprosy in Korea is a limited one.
On the results of the Pilot Project carried out in the Wolsung Gun in the Kyongsang
Pukdo Province from April 1963 to the end of 1965, Dr. Trappmann found the prevalence
rate to be only 2 per thousand. On that basis he estimated the total number of cases of
leprosy in the whole country at about 80,000
Moreover, the age-distribution of the detected cases-the prevalence being much higher
in older age group-would indicate that the disease is perhaps not on the increase.
(2) The main problem posed by leprosy in Korea today is the socio-economic problem
created by a large number of disease-arrested bacteriologically negative cases. About
half of these patients are able-bodied without any deformity and capable of doing
normal work, while the other half have various degrees of deformity, from slight to
marked crippling.
It has to be recognised that this huge socio-economic problem is the result of
accumulation of the bacteriologically negative cases in the leprosaria and colonies over
years, because of the policy that was being followed up to 1962. According to that
policy, once a patient with leprosy was detected. He or she was compulsorily sent to a
leprosy colony or a leprosy village, and was to spend the rest of the life there.
(3) A considerable amount of anti-leprosy work is being done in the country by the
Government, Christian Mission Organisations, and the Korean Leprosy Association.
However, there is a need for further intensifying certain activities, modiying some
others, and introducing some new activities in other directions. |
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