Scabies: Looking at ways to deal with endemic scabies in Fiji

Type Journal Article
Title Scabies: Looking at ways to deal with endemic scabies in Fiji
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
URL http://www.skincareforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/30.-Scabies.-Looking-at-ways-to-deal-with-e​ndemic-scabies-in-Fiji..pdf
Abstract
In many developed countries such as Australia, scabies is usually episodic, and is mostly seen by general medical practitioners, but if either a local outbreak occurs, or the cause of itch is not diagnosed, it is often dermatologists who are asked to help solve the problem [1]. In a situation of endemic scabies such as that which occurs in resource poor countries such as Fiji and in some indigenous communities including in Australia, the problem of scabies is often seen initially by the primary health care providers, commonly in a public clinic setting [2-4]. If the problem is recognized as being widespread, it is often passed to the public health authorities to deal with. At this level it is recognized that the problem of endemic scabies is no longer a purely skin / dermatological problem any more, but a public health problem.

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