TY - JOUR KW - Activities of Daily Living KW - Allied Health Personnel KW - Equipment Design KW - Hospital Design and Construction KW - Humans KW - Interdisciplinary Communication KW - leprosy KW - Myanmar KW - National Health Programs KW - Physical Therapy Specialty KW - Self-Help Devices AU - Nagato I AB -

I participated in "Leprosy Control and Basic Health Service Project in Myanmar" by JICA from 2002 to 2004. I went to Myanmar three times as a short-term expert of physiotherapy. I carried out evaluation training for physio staffs in national Yenanthar leprosy hospital. They learned how to evaluate activity of daily living. And they were able to make modified spoons and the canes. Later, they looked for the contents to evaluate by themselves. And they evaluated and decided by themselves what they should do. They felt the necessity for toilet chairs, modified beds and etc. They formed the plan and manufactured them. They were able to perform by themselves. It is thought that evaluation was fixed to staffs. This knowledge will surely be helpful to patients. I expect that this knowledge will be put to evaluations and exercises of many diseases. The physio staffs of this hospital will surely perform. Cooperation of the shoemaker and nursing staffs is very secure. I hope that it may become the model of saying [working in cooperation with other occupational descriptions] from now on.

BT - Nihon Hansenbyo Gakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of leprosy : official organ of the Japanese Leprosy Association C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16248357?dopt=Abstract DA - 2005 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Nihon Hansenbyo Gakkai Zasshi LA - jpn N2 -

I participated in "Leprosy Control and Basic Health Service Project in Myanmar" by JICA from 2002 to 2004. I went to Myanmar three times as a short-term expert of physiotherapy. I carried out evaluation training for physio staffs in national Yenanthar leprosy hospital. They learned how to evaluate activity of daily living. And they were able to make modified spoons and the canes. Later, they looked for the contents to evaluate by themselves. And they evaluated and decided by themselves what they should do. They felt the necessity for toilet chairs, modified beds and etc. They formed the plan and manufactured them. They were able to perform by themselves. It is thought that evaluation was fixed to staffs. This knowledge will surely be helpful to patients. I expect that this knowledge will be put to evaluations and exercises of many diseases. The physio staffs of this hospital will surely perform. Cooperation of the shoemaker and nursing staffs is very secure. I hope that it may become the model of saying [working in cooperation with other occupational descriptions] from now on.

PY - 2005 SP - 205 EP - 9 T2 - Nihon Hansenbyo Gakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of leprosy : official organ of the Japanese Leprosy Association TI - [Training of the rehabilitation staffs through taking measures against leprosy in Union of Myanmar]. VL - 74 SN - 1342-3681 ER -