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- Title
Spatial-temporal analysis of leprosy in a priority Brazilian northeast municipality for disease control.
- Authors
de Castro Lopes, Fernanda; da Silva de Sousa, Giana Gislanne; Melo da Silva, Weslei; Pereira de Jesus Costa, Ana Cristina; Stabnow Santos, Floriacy; Pascoal, Lívia Maia; Santos Neto, Marcelino
- Abstract
Objectives: to analyze the spatial-temporal distribution of leprosy in a priority municipality for leprosy control. Methods: ecological study, conducted in a city in the Northeast of Brazil, whose analysis units were census sectors. The study used compulsory notification data for cases registered between 2008 and 2017. TerraView software and the Batch Geocode tool was used for geocoding. The detection of spatial-temporal agglomerations of high relative risks was done by scanning statistics. Results: the spatial-temporal distribution of cases was heterogeneous, creating four agglomerations of high relative risks in the urban area of the municipality between the years 2008 and 2012; and annual prevalence rates classified from high to hyperendemic. Conclusions: areas of higher risk and concentration of the disease in space-time were linked to the characteristics of high population density and social vulnerability of these spaces, raising the prioritization of health professionals' actions, systems, and services for control, and monitoring the disease.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PREVENTION of epidemics; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; MEDICAL databases; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; HANSEN'S disease; POPULATION geography; RESEARCH funding; RESIDENTIAL patterns; METROPOLITAN areas
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1101