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16. Chronic disease, handicap
Has the person any chronic disease? _ _
Does the person have any predominant handicap? _ _ _
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16. Chronic illness/dominant handicap


a- Chronic illness
A chronic illness is all illnesses that evolve slowly, are prolonged and remain for a long time. The chronic illnesses which are objects of study in the framework of the 3rd GRPH are:

Basic Terms Code
No chronic illness 00
Diabetes 01
Hypertension 02
Cancer 03
Asthma 04
Tuberculosis 05
Sickle cell anemia 06
Epilepsy 07


To get the response related to the chronic illness, ask the surveyed person the 7 following questions:

Q1. Are you/is _____ suffering from diabetes?
Q2. Are you/is _____ suffering from hypertension?
Q3. Are you/is _____ suffering from cancer?
Q4. Are you/is _____ suffering from asthma?
Q5. Are you/is _____ suffering from tuberculosis?
Q6. Are you/is _____ suffering from sickle cell anemia?
Q7. Are you/is _____ suffering from epilepsy?


If the answer is Yes to any of these questions,
-Mark the code/s for the chronic illness/es on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person.


If at the end of the series of seven questions, the answers are No,
-Mark '00' on the on the dotted line corresponding to the registration order number of the surveyed person, meaning that the person doesn't have any of these illnesses.
-Mark a vertical line to note the difference between these answers and the handicap variable.