TY - JOUR KW - Aged KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Quality of Life KW - Russia AU - Duiyko V V AU - Mesnyankina O A AB -

The article deals with medical social and psychological aspects of impact of disease on quality of life of patients with leprosy. The focus is made upon predominantly elder age of registered patients with leprosy. The elaborated approach to treatment and dispensary monitoring of leprosy patients is proposed. The necessity of using techniques of evaluation of quality of life, enhancement of effectiveness of rehabilitation activities applied to leprosy patients is demonstrated.

BT - Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23634606?dopt=Abstract DA - 2012 Nov-Dec IS - 6 J2 - Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med LA - rus N2 -

The article deals with medical social and psychological aspects of impact of disease on quality of life of patients with leprosy. The focus is made upon predominantly elder age of registered patients with leprosy. The elaborated approach to treatment and dispensary monitoring of leprosy patients is proposed. The necessity of using techniques of evaluation of quality of life, enhancement of effectiveness of rehabilitation activities applied to leprosy patients is demonstrated.

PY - 2012 SP - 20 EP - 2 T2 - Problemy sotsial'noi gigieny, zdravookhraneniia i istorii meditsiny TI - [About quality of life of patients with leprosy]. SN - 0869-866X ER -