• Internal medicine journal · Mar 2019

    Multicenter Study

    Burden of skin disease in two remote primary healthcare centres in northern and central Australia.

    • Lauren Thomas, Asha C Bowen, Marleesa Ly, Christine Connors, Ross Andrews, and TongSteven Y CSYCMenzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.Victorian Infectious Disease Service, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Doherty Department University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Inst.
    • Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Northern Territory, Australia.
    • Intern Med J. 2019 Mar 1; 49 (3): 396399396-399.

    AbstractThe burden of skin infections across all age groups in remote Australian Indigenous communities is currently unknown. In a retrospective audit of 439 residents from two remote communities presenting to health clinics, skin conditions were the most common reason for presentation (1603/7392, 22%) and 330/439 (75%) residents presented at least once with a skin infection. Skin infections are an under-appreciated and dominant reason for presentation to primary healthcare centres in these indigenous communities and public health campaigns to address this should incorporate all age groups.© 2019 Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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