Patients using a free health clinic in Dunedin - have health issues usually seen in much older people
Patients using a free health clinic in Dunedin - have health issues usually seen in much older people
22 February 2019
An Otago University study has looked at 375 patients using Dunedin's free clinic - Servants Health Centre.
It's found 75 percent suffer from more than one health condition and half have long-term physical and mental health conditions.
Head of General Practice at Dunedin School of Medicine Tim Stokes says the average age of the patients is 42.
He says this level of disease severity is something you'd expect to find in people over 65.
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