A national survey of musculoskeletal impairment in Rwanda: Prevalence, causes and service implications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Atijosan, Oluwarantimi ^a   Rischewski, Dorothea ^a   Simms, Victoria ^a   Kuper, Hannah ^a   Linganwa, Bonaventure ^b   Nuhi, Assuman ^b   Foster, Allen ^a   Lavy, Chris ^a,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CBMI   (Rwanda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; RWANDA; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGED; HEALTH SERVICE; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RWANDA;

EID: 50949130124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002851     Document Type: Article

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