Epidemiology of rheumatic diseases in rural and urban populations in Indonesia: a World Health Organisation International League Against Rheumatism COPCORD study, stage I, phase 2
| Autor: | R D Wigley, J. Darmawan, K. D. Muirden, Hans A. Valkenburg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Male Rural Population medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Urban Population Immunology Population World Health Organization General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Disability Evaluation Rheumatology Rheumatic Diseases Environmental health Epidemiology Health care medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy education Aged education.field_of_study Primary Health Care business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Public health Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care medicine.disease Manual labour Indonesia Physical therapy Female Medicine Traditional business Developed country Rheumatism Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 51:525-528 |
| ISSN: | 0003-4967 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/ard.51.4.525 |
| Popis: | To determine the incidence of musculoskeletal pain, disabilities, and help seeking behaviour, a questionnaire was administered to a rural population of 2184 men and 2499 women and an urban population of 481 men and 590 women aged over 15 years by house to house interviews with completion rates of 95.2% (rural) and 97.1% (urban). The incidences of pain in the joints, back, or neck were 23.6% (rural) and 31.3% (urban). The incidence of disability due to an inability to walk, lift, carry, and dress was 2.8% (rural) and 0.9% (urban). The percentage of the population with pain who had to stop work owing to disability was 75% (rural) and 78% (urban). Official health care facilities were used by 62% (rural) and 71% (urban) of the population. Traditional health care was used by 87% (rural) and 89% (urban). The high percentage of subjects unable to work was due to a predominance of manual labour occupations (rural, 90%, urban, 80%). The age and sex specific incidence of rheumatic diseases in these populations were similar to other developing and developed countries. The primary rheumatology service was inadequate due to the low priority given by the health service to non-communicable diseases and inadequate rheumatology teaching of the primary health care doctors during undergraduate training. Musculoskeletal pain is a major public health problem in Indonesia and is still not fully appreciated. |
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