Open AccessRole of dermatologists in leprosy elimination and post elimination era
Author(s) -
Needhi Sharma
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
leprosy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 2162-8807
pISSN - 0305-7518
DOI - 10.47276/lr.78.1.54
Subject(s) - leprosy , medicine , dermatology , environmental health , immunology
Officially, we have eliminated leprosy in India and most of the world. Now we have entered the post elimination era. The vertical program has come to an end and the control program has been integrated with general health services. With these policy changes, let us analyse how this will influence the control programme. In the post-elimination era, we will examine fewer leprosy patients, which will result in:
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