충남지역 나환자에 대한 사회의학적 조사연구 = A Socio-Medical Study on the Leprosy Patients

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

We studied through February 1989 to August 1989 to investigate the demographic characteristics, disease status and deformity of leprosy patients registered at Chungnam provincial area on December 31, 1988.
The results were as follows:
1. Older than 40 years of age occupied 83.3%, and most patients lived at his or her own home as farmer or stock breeder.
2. The infection source was more the extrafamilial than the intrafamilial source and the most common initial symptoms and signs by body site were sensory paralysis on extremities and infiltration on face and macule on trunk.
3. The deformity was higher in male than female, older the age and much more the deformity.
4. The deformity was higher in T type than L type, and more recent onset of disease and shorter the duration between the onset and the register of disease, more lighter the deformity. The settlement villiger than domiciliary and the group of patientnts being treated at health center than leprosy association, the deformity was heavier.