One-day general practice morbidity survey in Sri Lanka

Training medical students in general practice: a qualitative study among general practitioner trainers in Sri Lanka

INTRODUCTION Worldwide Family Medicine has gained an important place in the undergraduate medical curriculum over the last few decades and general practices have become training centers for students. Exposure to patients early in the disease process, out patient management of common problems, follow up of chronic diseases and psychosocial aspects of health and disease are educational advantages...

Aspects of Psychiatric Morbidity in the out Patient Population of a General Hospital in Sri Lanka

A psychiatric morbidity study of a general hospital outpatient department population in Sri Lanka was done.A two stage sampling method was used. Questions which differentiated the psychiatrically morbid group were identified. The disease pattern was compared and contrasted with that presenting at psychiatric facilities in the area.Neurotic illness, the commonest being hypochondriasis was found ...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a country with an approximate area of 66 thousand square kilometers (UNO, 2008). The population is 20,409,946 and the sex ratio (men per hundred women) is 98 (UNO, 2009). The proportion of the population under the age of 18 years is 28% and the proportion above age 60 is 8% (UNO, 2009). The literacy rate is 97% for men and 99% for women (UN Statistics, 2008). The life expectancy at...

Knowledge, attitude, and practice of epilepsy in rural Sri Lanka

Knowledge, attitude, and practice in relation to epilepsy in developing countries appears to be different from that in developed countries. This study was conducted to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, expectations, sociocultural aspects, patient characteristics, disease characteristics, pattern of drug therapy, and outcome of patients with epilepsy in rural Sri Lanka. Data were collected from 207...

Women in Sri Lanka