TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Health Promotion
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Social Behavior
AU - DOGLIOTTI M
AB - <p>Ignorance, fear and superstition surround the problems of hanseniasis. In almost all cultures the predominant attitude is emotion, disgust and rejection towards persons suffering from this disease. All efforts aimed at the control of hanseniasis are doomed to failure unless the significance of stigma and associated social and economic factors are given adequate consideration. A programme of destigmatization is outlined.</p>
BT - Hansenologia internationalis
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/261974?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1979 Jun
IS - 1
J2 - Hansenol Int
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Ignorance, fear and superstition surround the problems of hanseniasis. In almost all cultures the predominant attitude is emotion, disgust and rejection towards persons suffering from this disease. All efforts aimed at the control of hanseniasis are doomed to failure unless the significance of stigma and associated social and economic factors are given adequate consideration. A programme of destigmatization is outlined.</p>
PY - 1979
SP - 40
EP - 1
T2 - Hansenologia internationalis
TI - Leprostigma in hanseniasis.
VL - 4
SN - 0100-3283
ER -