Skin disorders and disease profile of poverty: analysis of medical records in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, 2005-2007

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 469-475

  Accorsi, Sandro ^a   Barnabas, Gebre Ab ^b   Farese, Pasquale ^a   Padovese, Valeska ^c   Terranova, Margherita ^c   Racalbuto, Vincenzo ^d   Morrone, Aldo ^e  

^a Italian Cooperation   (Ethiopia)

^b Tigray Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

^c International Institute of Medical Anthropological and Social Sciences (IISMAS)   (Italy)

^d Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disease burden; Ethiopia; Healthcare delivery; Inequality; Poverty; Skin disease

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROWDING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECZEMA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PYODERMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCABIES; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449099148     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.11.028     Document Type: Article

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