TY - JOUR T1 - The Falkland Islands Morbidity Survey JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 535 LP - 546 VL - 32 IS - 242 AU - H. O. M. King AU - A. A. Bleaney Y1 - 1982/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/32/242/535.abstract N2 - A 12-month retrospective morbidity survey of the Falkland Islands in 1979 is described. A larger proportion of the population appear to have sought medical attention in this time than would be expected on the basis of comparable British figures. In general, cause-specific morbidity was similar in the two countries, although there were several discrepancies identified which may have been of environmental origin. The low prevalence of essential hypertension in males was particularly notable. ER -