Ma H D, Ye G Y, Shu H W, Jiang C, Zhou D S
Proc Chin Acad Med Sci Peking Union Med Coll. 1989;4(2):61-4.
Leprosy is a disease in which the social, economic, cultural and environmental factors play an important role in occurrence, spread, control, eradication and rehabilitation. Eliminating the unfavourable factors hindering leprosy control can make achieving the goal of basic eradication of leprosy in China before the end of this century possible. For this reason, since 1984 we have carried out systematic studies of the social aspects of leprosy in Baoying County, a former high-endemic area in Jiangsu Province of East China, where the endemicity of leprosy is nearing full control.
麻风病是一种社会、经济、文化和环境因素在其发生、传播、控制、根除及康复过程中都起着重要作用的疾病。消除阻碍麻风病控制的不利因素，可使我国在本世纪末之前实现基本消灭麻风病的目标成为可能。因此，自1984年以来，我们对宝应县麻风病的社会方面进行了系统研究。宝应县是中国东部江苏省的一个既往高流行区，目前麻风病流行已接近完全得到控制。
