Socio - cultural issues in leprosy control and management
Literature review
Keywords:
Culture, Leprosy, Management, Control, Social-economicAbstract
Background: Background: Leprosy is a tropical infectious disease that is neglected worldwide. The world's SDGs target in 2024-2030 requires efforts to reduce it from 0.05 per 10,000 population. The lack of maximum preventive actions and the high number of cases of leprosy can be caused by social and cultural factors; on the other hand, it also impacts social and cultural problems of society in general. Objective: To explore whether social, cultural, and disease control or management factors are related to the high incidence of leprosy based on the existing literature. Methods: Methods: A literature taken from databases included SCOPUS, PubMed, Ebsco, Proquest, Google Scholar. The periods are from November 1 to December 30, 2021. The databases included SCOPUS, PubMed, Ebsco, Proquest, Google Scholar. The literature obtained was six articles that met the inclusion criteria. By using the review protocol through the PRISMA checklist. Stages through screening inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality assessment and data extraction. The analysis was carried out for the key characteristics of each included study and summarized qualitatively.
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