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India s National Tuberculosis Programme in relation
to the proposed social and economic development plans. |
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Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Workers Conf, 20th,
Ahmedabad, India, 3-5, Feb. 1965, p. 210-215. |
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It has been shown that most of the infectious TB
cases in a rural community in south India are at least conscious
of symptoms of the disease; about three-fourths of them are worried
about their symptoms and about half are seeking relief at rural
medical institutions. It is well known that the existing facilities
deal with only a very small fraction of even those patients who
are actively seeking treatment. India`s NTP has been designed to
mobilise the existing resources in order to offer suitable diagnostic
and treatment services to those who already have felt-need. India's
health administrators have to initiate suitable administrative and
organizationl reorientation of the existing medical and health services
to satisfy this already existing felt needs. The provision of such
services could very well motivate the remaining TB patients to seek
the help from the medical institutions. This motivational force
is expected to get reinforced as a result of progress in the field
of education, mass communication, transport & industrial and
agricultural production. Simultaneously, progress in the social
and economic plans will offer the needed resources for strengthening
the existing health services in terms of personnel, funds, equipments
and supplies. Further more, social and economic development, by
increasing awareness of the population, will ensure a more effective
utilization of the existing services. Thus, social and economic
growth will not only help in the development of an epidemiologically
effective TB control programme, but the very rise in the standard
of living itself might make a significant impact in controlling
the disease in the country.
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KEYWORDS: SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; HEALTH SERVICES;
INDIA. |