TY - JOUR KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - Humans KW - India KW - Leprostatic Agents KW - leprosy KW - Mycobacterium leprae KW - National Health Programs KW - Patient Satisfaction KW - Prevalence KW - Residence Characteristics KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Rural Health KW - Rural Population AU - Elango S AB -

Based on the encouraging results of the integration in Tamil Nadu, the Government of India introduced integration in the entire country. In this study on integration, Madurai district was taken as the study area. The impact of integration on essential indicators of leprosy elimination was analyzed and the results are discussed so that they will be useful to other states that are still considering integration.

BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15242273?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 2003 Oct-Dec IS - 4 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -

Based on the encouraging results of the integration in Tamil Nadu, the Government of India introduced integration in the entire country. In this study on integration, Madurai district was taken as the study area. The impact of integration on essential indicators of leprosy elimination was analyzed and the results are discussed so that they will be useful to other states that are still considering integration.

PY - 2003 SP - 347 EP - 54 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Impact of integration of NLEP into PHC system in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, and status of integration of leprosy patients into the community. VL - 75 SN - 0254-9395 ER -