TY - JOUR KW - Community Medicine KW - Developing countries KW - Health Literacy KW - Health Services Needs and Demand KW - Humans KW - Poverty KW - Public health KW - Skin Diseases KW - Telemedicine AU - Hay R AU - Estrada R AU - Grossmann H AB -

Programs that have been devised to improve the lot of patients with skin disease, or disease presenting with skin signs and symptoms, in resource-poor regions have focused mainly on education and training or community-oriented control measures. However, both have in common an objective of managing disease at population level. Training has been delivered in different ways both by direct teaching for varying periods of time or by web-based and electronic communication; control measures have been less in evidence and there is a great need for more support from funding agencies. Despite this, there is now a growing number of successful initiatives in health improvement for skin conditions that cover many parts of the world. This report describes many of these schemes as an example of what can be done to help patients.

BT - International journal of dermatology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21506972?dopt=Abstract DA - 2011 May DO - 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.04954.x IS - 5 J2 - Int. J. Dermatol. LA - eng N2 -

Programs that have been devised to improve the lot of patients with skin disease, or disease presenting with skin signs and symptoms, in resource-poor regions have focused mainly on education and training or community-oriented control measures. However, both have in common an objective of managing disease at population level. Training has been delivered in different ways both by direct teaching for varying periods of time or by web-based and electronic communication; control measures have been less in evidence and there is a great need for more support from funding agencies. Despite this, there is now a growing number of successful initiatives in health improvement for skin conditions that cover many parts of the world. This report describes many of these schemes as an example of what can be done to help patients.

PY - 2011 SP - 558 EP - 63 T2 - International journal of dermatology TI - Managing skin disease in resource-poor environments - the role of community-oriented training and control programs. VL - 50 SN - 1365-4632 ER -