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CULTURE, COMMUNITY MEDICINE AND VENEREAL DISEASE
Author(s) -
White Gordon
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb130464.x
Subject(s) - disease , transmission (telecommunications) , etiology , medicine , disease control , alternative medicine , family medicine , intensive care medicine , pathology , environmental health , engineering , electrical engineering
This paper reports a remarkable case of venereal disease. It discusses the serious implications and enormous difficulties of control in an Aboriginal community in which striking cultural practices play a unique and major role in disease transmission. Despite known aetiology and the ready availability of inexpensive treatment, patients continue to suffer whilst health education remains extremely difficult.