TY - JOUR KW - Activities of Daily Living KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - China KW - Disabled Persons KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Prevalence KW - Self care KW - Severity of Illness Index KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Surveys and Questionnaires AU - Shumin C AU - Diangchang L AU - Bing L AU - Lin Z AU - Xioulu Y AB -

With the decline in prevalence of leprosy, social and economic rehabilitation (SER) has become a major priority in leprosy control programme in Shandong Province. In the preparative phase of an SER programme, a province-wide survey was conducted with a semi-structured questionnaire in order to provide policy makers and programme managers with some basic information on the disability, and social and economic situation of the people affected by leprosy. This paper presents the results of a study in the people affected by leprosy living in the communities.

BT - Leprosy review C1 -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14577466?dopt=Abstract

CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 2003 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Lepr Rev LA - eng N2 -

With the decline in prevalence of leprosy, social and economic rehabilitation (SER) has become a major priority in leprosy control programme in Shandong Province. In the preparative phase of an SER programme, a province-wide survey was conducted with a semi-structured questionnaire in order to provide policy makers and programme managers with some basic information on the disability, and social and economic situation of the people affected by leprosy. This paper presents the results of a study in the people affected by leprosy living in the communities.

PY - 2003 SP - 215 EP - 21 T2 - Leprosy review TI - Assessment of disability, social and economic situations of people affected by leprosy in Shandong Province, People's Republic of China. UR - https://leprosyreview.org/article/74/3/21-5221 VL - 74 SN - 0305-7518 ER -