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GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES
Amoebiasis/Dysentary/Gastroenteritis
The Trust Territory reports a high incidence rate for amoebiasis,
3,595 per 100,000 population.
reported annually.
Over 4,000 cases of amoebiasis are
The procedure for diagnosing the disease is based
on laboratory examination of unstrained stool specimens.
However, recent
studies by the Communicable Disease Control Branch of the United States
Public Health Service and other Pacific Islands countries have indicated
that most of the reported amoebiasis 1s probably incorrectly diagnosed
and the proper diagnosis would probably be dysentary.
Gastroenteritis
and dysentary are the principle diseases responsible for the high
communicable disease mortality rate.
. Table
y.5presents the number of deaths by year from gastrointestinal
diseases.
of age.
Of the 265 deaths, 192 or 75% were children less than one year
The mortality rate due to gastroenteritis and dysentary for the
period 1972-1977 was 29.26 deaths per 100,000 population. Children less than
1 year of aga account for 19% of all cases hospitalized for gastroenteritis diseases.
OBJECTIVE
BY 1983, THE MORTALITY RATE FOR GASTROINTESTINAL
DISEASES WILL BE NO MORE THAN 18 PER 100,000
POPULATION.
OBJECTIVE
BY 1982, THE INCIDENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE
WILL BE REDUCED BY 12%.
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