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VOLUME 30: SUPPLEMENT 67 AUGUST 2003
International Conference for the Bone and Joint Decade
Tokyo, Japan
April 17–19, 2002
Rheumatic Diseases at the Dawn of the Millennium

Y. Shiokawa .........1
Opening Address International Conference for the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 and the 50th Anniversary of the Initiation of the Rheumatism
Control Program in Japan

Her Majesty the Empress of Japan .........3
The Bone and Joint Decade and the Global Economic and Healthcare Burden of Musculoskeletal Disease

L. Lidgren .........4
The Bone and Joint Decade. Strategies to Reduce the Burden of Disease: the Bone and Joint Monitor
Project
 A.D. Woolf .........6
Principles of Rheumatoid Arthritis Control
 T.G. Palferman .........10
New Perspectives in the Management of Osteoarthritis. Structure Modifications: Facts or Fantasy?

J-Y. Reginster, O. Bruyere, Y. Henrotin .........14
Principles of Bone and Joint Disease Control
Programs Osteoporosis

K. Åkesson .........21
Back Pain
 G.E. Ehrlich .........26
Bone and Joint Diseases Around the World
USA: Arthritis Foundation Research, Collaboration,
and Advocacy

D.L. Riggin .........32
The UK Perspective
 T.G. Palferman .........33
Arthritis – the Greatest Health, Disability, and Civil Rights Challenge: a UK and International Perspective

N. Betteridge .........36
Sweden: A Brief Update on Burden and Priority
 K. Åkesson .........38
The Swedish Rheumatism Association
 L. Öhrsvik .........41
Musculoskeletal Conditions in France

L. Euller-Ziegler .........42
France: Rheumatoid Polyarthritis, Chronic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, and Ankylosing Spondylitis.
A Public Health Priority
 A.J. Rose .........45
Japan: Strategy for Rheumatic Disease Control
 M. Mugitani .........47
The Japan Rheumatism Friendship Association

M. Hasegawa .........48
Reduced Burden of Disease and Improved Outcome
of Patients with Rheumatoid Factor Positive Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared with Dropouts.
A 10 Year Observational Study

J. Darmawan, J.J. Rasker, H. Nuralim .........50
The Indonesian Perspective
 E. Wardhani .........54
Musculoskeletal Disorders in Russia at the End
of the 20th Century

E.L. Nassonov .........56
The Role of User Representation and Arthritis and Rheumatism International
 R. Johnstone .........59
Perspectives on the Future of Bone and Joint
Diseases
 J.A. McGowan .........62
The Tokyo Declaration
 A.D. Woolf, K. Shichikawa .........65
Establishment of the International Assessment Committee of Bone and Joint Diseases

K. Shichikawa .........66
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