1. Health problems among Vietnamese refugees resettled in Japan.
- Author
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Katsumata T, Kohno S, Yamashita K, Takeno Y, Matsunaga K, Oka R, Fujiwara T, and Hara K
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Child, Demography, Female, Health Status Indicators, Hepatitis, Viral, Human epidemiology, Humans, Japan, Lung Diseases epidemiology, Malaria epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Parasitic Diseases epidemiology, Syphilis epidemiology, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary epidemiology, Vietnam ethnology, Morbidity, Refugees
- Abstract
A medical examination of 932 Vietnamese refugees was conducted within 1 month of their resettlement in Japan between 1989 and 1991. A variety of abnormalities were detected, including parasitic disease (78% prevalence), anemia (12%), HBsAg positive state (14%), liver dysfunction (10%), hypertension (0.8%), active pulmonary tuberculosis (2%) and syphilis (0.7%). These rates were still as high as the prevalence in previous studies of earlier immigrants from Vietnam. The high frequency of infectious diseases in recent Vietnamese refugees compared with the Japanese community leads to a recommendation for continuing medical examinations and treatment for new Vietnamese refugees.
- Published
- 1993