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- Title
Spatial pattern and temporal trend of mortality due to tuberculosis.
- Authors
Rêgo de Queiroz, Ana Angélica; Zamboni Berra, Thaís; da Cunha Garcia, Maria Concebida; Paschoal Popolin, Marcela; de Souza Belchior, Aylana; Yamamura, Mellina; dos Santos, Danielle Talita; Arroyo, Luiz Henrique; Arcêncio, Ricardo Alexandre
- Abstract
Objectives: To describe the epidemiological profile of mortality due to tuberculosis (TB), to analyze the spatial pattern of these deaths and to investigate the temporal trend in mortality due to tuberculosis in Northeast Brazil. Methods: An ecological study based on secondary mortality data. Deaths due to TB were included in the study. Descriptive statistics were calculated and gross mortality rates were estimated and smoothed by the Local Empirical Bayesian Method. Prais- Winsten's regression was used to analyze the temporal trend in the TB mortality coefficients. The Kernel density technique was used to analyze the spatial distribution of TB mortality. Results: Tuberculosis was implicated in 236 deaths. The burden of tuberculosis deaths was higher amongst males, single people and people of mixed ethnicity, and the mean age at death was 51 years. TB deaths were clustered in the East, West and North health districts, and the tuberculosis mortality coefficient remained stable throughout the study period. Conclusions: Analyses of the spatial pattern and temporal trend in mortality revealed that certain areas have higher TB mortality rates, and should therefore be prioritized in public health interventions targeting the disease.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; TUBERCULOSIS mortality; TUBERCULOSIS epidemiology; AGE distribution; CONFIDENCE intervals; ECOLOGICAL research; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; ETHNIC groups; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; MEDICAL databases; MARITAL status; MORTALITY; REGRESSION analysis; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; TIME series analysis; DATA analysis; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2018, Vol 26, p1
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1518-8345.2049.2992