Evaluation of Clinical Diagnoses, Age, Gender, and Seasonal Differences of Patients Visiting a Secondary Healthcare Dermatology Clinic from a Family Medicine Perspective
October 2015
Studysummary This study examined patients visiting a dermatology clinic at a secondary health facility and identified the ten most common skin disease groups among them, considering factors like clinical diagnosis, age, gender, and seasonal variations. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.
The study evaluated patients visiting a secondary healthcare dermatology clinic, focusing on clinical diagnoses, age, gender, and seasonal differences from a family medicine perspective. It identified that various personal factors such as race, age, gender, heredity, personal hygiene, and cultural level, along with environmental factors like climate, geographic region, rural or urban settlement, and occupation, played roles in the emergence of skin diseases. According to World Health Organization data, skin diseases were among the top five most common diseases, often treated by non-dermatologist physicians. The study identified the 10 most common disease groups among the patients.
