TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Child KW - Child, Preschool KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Indian Ocean Islands KW - Infant KW - Infant Mortality KW - Infant, Newborn KW - leprosy KW - Malaria KW - Male KW - Middle Aged AU - McGlashan N AU - Ali M AU - Shepherd S AB -

It is difficult to quantify the major health scourges from which the Maldivians suffer because of the scattered nature of their settlements and their conservative attitudes to health and hygiene-related matters. Projects to improve the quality of the health and disease data have been instituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Maldivian Ministry of Health. The paper analyses information that has since become available on three major ill-health conditions in the Maldives, namely infant deaths, malaria and leprosy.

BT - Ecology of disease C1 -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6926844?dopt=Abstract

DA - 1982 IS - 4 J2 - Ecol Dis LA - eng N2 -

It is difficult to quantify the major health scourges from which the Maldivians suffer because of the scattered nature of their settlements and their conservative attitudes to health and hygiene-related matters. Projects to improve the quality of the health and disease data have been instituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Maldivian Ministry of Health. The paper analyses information that has since become available on three major ill-health conditions in the Maldives, namely infant deaths, malaria and leprosy.

PY - 1982 SP - 221 EP - 8 T2 - Ecology of disease TI - Some health problems of the Maldives. VL - 1 SN - 0278-4300 ER -