Sanober Masood, Muhammad Akhtar Khan, Gulfreen Waheed.
Disease pattern around border belt area.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;4(4):343-8.

Objective: To promote health, prevention of disease, close contact to community and provide health facilities Study design: Descriptive Study place: the study was conducted at rural areas of the radius about thirty kilometers from Avicenna medical college phase 1X defense Lahore cant. Study duration: This study was done from December 2009 to February 2010. Methodology: It is a cross-sectional survey, carried out by the department of community medicine and the medicine department, at Avicenna medical college and hospital. This study was done under the outreach program. The free medical camp was conducted in each village once; some areas were visited twice too. A team of doctors with trained nurses visited twenty three villages. The patients were seen in the free medical camp. The check up, diagnosis and provision of the available medicine were given with no cost. The patients who need further follow up or referral were referred to the nearby Hospital, the Avicenna hospital. This study describes knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding healthcare in a border belt rural area of Pakistan. This is a cross sectional survey of a rural area of district Lahore, Pakistan. There were 3000 of population seen out of 39,200 living in 5000 households. Result: In this study there were total of 3000 patients were seen. The household living in these areas is 39,200. There are 5000 houses are in these areas. This whole information gained through the general communication with the villagers, there is no consensus since 90, s so this was the only source of information for this area. This study time period rages three months from December 2009 to February 2010. These were given free medical checkup and medicines. Most of these were convinced about their personal hygiene .these people were loaded with the information about preventive simple measure, they could adopt in order live better and healthy life with less hassles. Conclusion: the people of these villages have inadequate access to health care due to limited healthcare options and poor knowledge of disease complications. This can be corrected by improving services and increasing overall health awareness in the community.

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