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The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011

Objective: Disability is one of the significant problems that the public faces as regards social aspects, economics, public health and politics. Our aim was to review the prevalence of diseases causing disabilities in young adult men who are declared “unfit for military service” in Turkey after medi...

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Autores principales: Kocak, Necmettin, Turker, Turker, Aydin, Ibrahim, Istanbulluoglu, Hakan, Akyildiz, Ramazan, Kilic, Selim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3858951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353728
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author Kocak, Necmettin
Turker, Turker
Aydin, Ibrahim
Istanbulluoglu, Hakan
Akyildiz, Ramazan
Kilic, Selim
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description Objective: Disability is one of the significant problems that the public faces as regards social aspects, economics, public health and politics. Our aim was to review the prevalence of diseases causing disabilities in young adult men who are declared “unfit for military service” in Turkey after medical examination. Methods: We reviewed the prevalence of diseases among 113,175 young adult men who were referred for medical examination between 2009 and 2011. Results: Prevalence of unfitness for military service was 5.56% in 2009, 6.74% in 2010 and 6.77% in 2011. Leading causes for young adult men to be rejected from military service was intellectual disability 6.88, hearing loss 3.71, epilepsy 1.59, schizophrenia 1.54 and diabetes mellitus 1.47 per thousand people. Conclusion: Screening for the prevalence of disability conditions is an important data source for policies to be developed. Supporting such survey with community based studies in different populations in future shall be beneficial for improvement of policies in social and health fields.
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spelling pubmed-38589512013-12-18 The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011 Kocak, Necmettin Turker, Turker Aydin, Ibrahim Istanbulluoglu, Hakan Akyildiz, Ramazan Kilic, Selim Pak J Med Sci Original Article Objective: Disability is one of the significant problems that the public faces as regards social aspects, economics, public health and politics. Our aim was to review the prevalence of diseases causing disabilities in young adult men who are declared “unfit for military service” in Turkey after medical examination. Methods: We reviewed the prevalence of diseases among 113,175 young adult men who were referred for medical examination between 2009 and 2011. Results: Prevalence of unfitness for military service was 5.56% in 2009, 6.74% in 2010 and 6.77% in 2011. Leading causes for young adult men to be rejected from military service was intellectual disability 6.88, hearing loss 3.71, epilepsy 1.59, schizophrenia 1.54 and diabetes mellitus 1.47 per thousand people. Conclusion: Screening for the prevalence of disability conditions is an important data source for policies to be developed. Supporting such survey with community based studies in different populations in future shall be beneficial for improvement of policies in social and health fields. Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3858951/ /pubmed/24353728 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kocak, Necmettin
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Istanbulluoglu, Hakan
Akyildiz, Ramazan
Kilic, Selim
The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title_full The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title_fullStr The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title_full_unstemmed The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title_short The prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in Turkey between 2009-2011
title_sort prevalence of disorders causing disability in young adult males in turkey between 2009-2011
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3858951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353728
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