Controle dos comunicantes: sua interferencia na situação epidemiologica da hanseníase

The control situation of hanseniasis patients' contacts needs a deeper study which would show the reality in the public health centers and their consequence over the whole country. The increasing of the prevalence rate of the disease added to the bad social-economic conditions of the patients a...

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Authors: PEDRAllANI, Elisete Silva, TOYODA, Cristina Yoshie, BROGNHARA, Maria Aparecida, MALUF, Sâmia Amire
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:1986
Country:Brasil
Institution:Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima (ILSL)
Repository:Hansenologia Internationalis (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br:article/35534
Online Access:https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/35534
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Hanseníase
Comunicantes
Epidemiologia
Hanseniasis
Contacts
Epidemiology
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Summary:The control situation of hanseniasis patients' contacts needs a deeper study which would show the reality in the public health centers and their consequence over the whole country. The increasing of the prevalence rate of the disease added to the bad social-economic conditions of the patients and contacts gave us subsidies to important studies to understand the present epidemiological picture. This research had the purpose of diagnosing the control situation of hanseniasis patients contacts in a public health center which had, at the moment of this research (1983) 160 hanseniasis patients (incidence of 1.2/1000) and 757 contacts registered in a Subprogram of Hansen's Disease Control.