Socio-economic Rehabilitation in Leprosy–an Example

Socio-economic rehabilitation in leprosy--an example.

Editor, Leprosy is more a medico-social problem than a disease. As a medical problem, the incidence of the disease has decreased slowly since the introduction of MDT. Although leprosy is no longer a public health problem in many endemic countries, the social aspects in terms of stigma, discrimination, poverty, disability, deformity and loss of self-con®dence are still major hurdles to be overco...

Socio-economic rehabilitation programmes of LEPRA India--methodology, results and application of needs-based socio-economic evaluation.

There is now a better understanding of the scope and process of rehabilitation. The approach recognizes the impact of leprosy on the individual, aims to understand the needs and concerns of those affected, their families and community in the rehabilitation process, and that aims to restore the person to normal social life. LEPRA India has undertaken socio-economic rehabilitation (SER) activitie...

Socio-economic Vitality in the Prophetic Behavior

The socio-economic vitality of the prophetic era promoted the society and created the potential to solve socio-economic problems. The main purpose of this article is to identify the factors that regenerate socio-economic vitality in the prophetic period. The paradigm or model of this research is derived from the method of Strauss and Corbin's Grounded Theory. Therefore, based on definition of s...

Integrative qualitative modelling of ecological and socio-economic aspects of river-rehabilitation in England

This poster present the planning phase of a QR model following the structured modelling approached described by Bredeweg et al. (2007). The model is aimed at exploring issues and outcomes for rehabilitation of Atlantic salmon stocks in the River Trent. These stocks have been lost due to impacts from the industrial revolution. Rehabilitation programmes within the context of the European Union’s ...

Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems