Resultados: 214

Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis in the State of São Paulo

ABSTRACT Objectives: To describe and analyze the coverage profile of directly observed treatment for tuberculosis in 59 priority municipalities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, through the creation and comparison of groups homogenized by the number of people in each municipality from 2006 to 2012. ...

Spatial analysis on tuberculosis and the network of primary health care

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the spatial distribution of new cases of tuberculosis compared to the location of the Primary Healthcare Units that performed the compulsory notification. Method: ecological study conducted in Belém, Pará, with 5,294 new cases of tuberculosis notified to Sistema de Info...

Epidemiological profile of tuberculosis cases with HIV coinfection in Porto Alegre city, Brazil

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe and compare the epidemiological profile of cases of tuberculosis and HIV coinfection of the District Administration Health Units of Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 2009 to 2013. Method: Retrospective cohort with data from national health information systems. Sociodemographic...

Hepatitis B and Delta: clinical aspects of patients in the Brazilian Western Amazonia

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze clinical, serological, biochemical and hematological aspects in patients infected with the hepatitis B (HBV) and Delta (HDV) viruses. Method: cross-sectional, descriptive and retrospective study, performed with patients chronically infected with HBV and superinfected with...

Temporal trend of leprosy in a region of high endemicity in the Brazilian Northeast

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the temporal trend and epidemiological patterns of leprosy indicators in Sobral, a municipality countryside of the state of Ceará, from 2001 to 2016. Method: a time series study based on data from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System. The time trend...

Sociodemographic and health profile of TB/HIV co-infection in Brazil: a systematic review

ABSTRACT Objective: to ascertain the epidemiological profile of TB/HIV co-infection in Brazilian scenarios. Method: this is a systematic review conducted via electronic search in databases PubMed, EMBASE, LILACS and SciELO, having as inclusion criterion articles based on the Brazilian scenario of TB/HI...

Clinical and epidemiological features of tuberculosis in children and adolescents

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the clinical and epidemiological features of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in an infectious diseases reference hospital. Method: A documental and retrospective study was carried out with 88 medical files in an infectious diseases reference hospital in the state...

Tendência e distribuição espacial de doenças infecciosas em gestantes no estado do Paraná-Brasil

Objetivo analisar a tendência e a distribuição espacial de algumas doenças de notificação compulsória em gestantes. Método estudo ecológico, com dados do Sistema Nacional de Agravos de Notificação, das incidências das seis doenças de notificação mais frequentes em gestantes. O modelo de...

Sociodemographic and health situation of teenage students according to sex

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between sex (male and female) and sociodemographic, reproductive and sexual variables in teenagers and identify the highest rates of social and health issues among them. Method: This was a cross-sectional study conducted with 239 adolescents enrolled in a p...

Analysis of triage and care for women victims of road accidents

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the care flow for women victims of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA). Method: a descriptive study with 782 women victims of RAT, classified by the Manchester Triage System (MTS) between 2015 and 2016. The sociodemographic profile and the time between the stages of care were an...