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KMID : 0617819920020010262
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Journal of Wonkwang Oriental Medicine
1992 Volume.2 No. 1 p.262 ~ p.270
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Investigation on the Tendency of Oriental Medical clinic Utilization in the Rural Community
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宋峰根/Song, Bong-Keun
黃忠演/文錫哉/Hwang, Choong-Yeon/Moon, Seok-Jae
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Abstract
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The prevalence of disease is affected by cultural factors. Changing cultural and social pattern may modify patterns of disease. Today majority of labor force in rural community is elderly population with a concomitant increase in woman.
We investigated prevalence of problems in rural population utilizing oriental medical clinic in Changsan-myon, Shinan-gun, Chunnam.
The majority of patients in this area were female and in the 40 to 60s. Muscoskeletal problems had the highest incidence. Low back pain was leading complaints in the muscoskeletal problems and knee pain was the most common complaints in the digestive problems, headache in the neurologic problems. cough in the respiratory problems, hypertension in the circulatory problems, ear problems in the sense organ problems, pruritys in the dermatologic problems, leukorrhea and postmenopausal syndrome in the gynecologic problems, and dysuria and enuresis in the urinary problems.
These results suggest that oriental medical physicians have attention to health care and management of the expanding population of elderly and female patients with high incidence of muscoskeietal problems in the rural community.
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