2012
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2012000600013
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Aspectos epidemiológicos da hanseníase: uma abordagem espacial

Abstract: The objective of this study was to identify spatial patterns in the occurrence of leprosy in Duque de Caxias, a municipality (county) IntroduçãoA eliminação da hanseníase tem sido difícil de ser alcançada em algumas regiões, em face da complexidade da doença 1,2 . Sabe-se que o Mycobacterium leprae é considerado de baixa patogenicidade, pois apenas uma pequena parcela dos indivíduos supostamente infectados desenvolve a moléstia 3 . Além disso, não se sabe ao certo se, em algum momento entre o contato com o… Show more

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“…Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3 show the articles' summaries according to the scale used: two evaluated regions/ mesoregions 14,15 ; 13 used the scale of municipalities 10,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] ; 4 evaluated districts [28][29][30][31] ; 6 studied neighborhoods [32][33][34][35][36][37] ; 7 analyzed the census tracts [38][39][40][41][42][43][44] ; and 3 investigated households [45][46][47] . Within each scale, the articles were organized by location: Brazil, Northern, Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast regions.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Table 1, Table 2 and Table 3 show the articles' summaries according to the scale used: two evaluated regions/ mesoregions 14,15 ; 13 used the scale of municipalities 10,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] ; 4 evaluated districts [28][29][30][31] ; 6 studied neighborhoods [32][33][34][35][36][37] ; 7 analyzed the census tracts [38][39][40][41][42][43][44] ; and 3 investigated households [45][46][47] . Within each scale, the articles were organized by location: Brazil, Northern, Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast regions.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Within each scale, the articles were organized by location: Brazil, Northern, Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast regions. In all, 4 approached Brazil 10,16-18 , 7 studied the Northern region or the states of the Amazon region 14,19,20,[38][39][40]45 , 11 focused on the Northeast region [21][22][23]28,[32][33][34][35][36]40,41 , 4 the Midwest region 15,29,37,46 , and 12 the Southeast region [24][25][26][27]30,31,36,37,[42][43][44]47 .…”
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“…Ecological studies have been widely used in the area of health research 15,16 . In the case of leprosy, spatial analysis is an important tool that provides information about the spatial structure and dynamics of the disease, which is the fi rst step in characterizing a health status.…”
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confidence: 99%