Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem | |
Physical disabilities resulting from hansen's disease in Vale do Jequitinhonha/State of Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
Francisco Carlos Félix Lana1  Evaldo Pinheiro Amaral1  Fernanda Moura Lanza1  Andrigo Neves E Silva Lopes De Saldanha1  | |
[1] ,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais,Brazil | |
关键词: leprosy; epidemiology; statistics on sequelae and disability; lepra; epidemiologia; estadísticas de secuelas y discapacidad; hanseníase; epidemiologia; estatísticas de seqüelas e incapacidade; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0104-11692008000600009 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
Leprosy is potentially debilitating. The present study aims at describing and assessing the occurrence of physical disabilities in cases of leprosy in the population of the Vale do Jequitinhonha/MG, in the period 1998-2006. It is an epidemiological descriptive study and the data were collected from the Leprosy Notification Forms. This information was processed using EPI-INFO and analyzed, based on the indicators recommended by the Ministry of Health and the force of association between variables. Of the 1461 cases notified, 46.2% were diagnosed with some kind of physical disability (12.1% degree II). Of these, 59.1% were male; 96.9% of the people were over 15 years old, and 93.2% were multibacillary (p < 0.001). A hidden prevalence of 433 cases was estimated in the period 2002-2006. The results show that the diagnosis of Hansen's disease in the region is late, revealing the need to intensify prevention and control.
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