TY - JOUR
KW - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW - Dermatomycoses
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - onchocerciasis
KW - Poverty
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - Skin Diseases
KW - Skin Ulcer
AU - Stingl P
AB - <p>Today there is no Third World country in Africa that offers sufficient basic services for skin diseases. This paper describes the distribution and clinical aspects of skin diseases in school children, soldiers, the city population and villagers of Sierra Leone. Poverty-linked types of dermatosis play a major role throughout the country. The high prevalence rates and clinical degree make skin diseases a severe public health problem in Sierra Leone.</p>
BT - Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3495521?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Mar
IS - 3
J2 - Hautarzt
LA - ger
N2 - <p>Today there is no Third World country in Africa that offers sufficient basic services for skin diseases. This paper describes the distribution and clinical aspects of skin diseases in school children, soldiers, the city population and villagers of Sierra Leone. Poverty-linked types of dermatosis play a major role throughout the country. The high prevalence rates and clinical degree make skin diseases a severe public health problem in Sierra Leone.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 146
EP - 54
T2 - Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete
TI - [Skin diseases in Sierra Leone].
VL - 38
SN - 0017-8470
ER -