el Bushra H E
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum.
East Afr Med J. 1992 May;69(5):279-81.
This short review summarizes all the published and unpublished reports on vitamin A deficiency in the Sudan in the last four decades. Different local terms used by people to indicate vitamin A deficiency were enlisted. There is evidence that vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in eastern Sudan and among communities from western and southern Sudan living around Greater Khartoum, who were displaced from their homelands because of drought, famine conditions and civil unrest. There are reports indicative of vitamin A deficiency problem in the central and the far western provinces. There were no reports from the northern provinces. The need for a surveillance system was discussed.
这篇简短的综述总结了过去四十年来苏丹关于维生素A缺乏症的所有已发表和未发表的报告。列出了人们用来表示维生素A缺乏症的不同当地术语。有证据表明，维生素A缺乏症是苏丹东部以及来自苏丹西部和南部、居住在喀土穆周边地区的社区面临的一个公共卫生问题，这些社区因干旱、饥荒状况和内乱而背井离乡。有报告表明中部和最西部省份存在维生素A缺乏问题。北部省份没有相关报告。文中还讨论了建立监测系统的必要性。
