Estudio sobre los conocimientos de hanseníase que tienen los trabajadores de salud

Abstract

Sanitary education in leprosy is considered as a priority in a strategy of work to reach the goal of elimination in lepros y launched by the W.H.O. (Wor ld Heal t h Organisation) for the year 2000. This was the reason that we wanted to enquire the level of knowledge of the health workers, previous to the development of the courses and the work - shops. We introduce here the results of 33 courses, made during 5 years, from 1995 to 1999 inclusive, with 1065 students and their answers to different aspects of leprosy, and an epidemiologi cal cor relat ion based on recorded information.