Objective: to analyze the functioning and disability profi-le of persons affected by leprosy. Methods: a quantitative study, carried out with 43 people in six reference units with support groups for self-care in leprosy. A sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire and the World Health Organiza-tion Disability Assessment Schedule instrument were used. The analyses used descriptive statistics, the chi-square te...
The study aimed to analyze the magnitude and sociodemographic profile of leprosy cases linked to household contact networks with overlapping of the disease in two Brazilian municipalities (counties), one in the North and the other in the Northeast, from 2001 to 2014. This was a cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical study based on primary and secondary data from new leprosy cases in Picos, Piauí State, and Ro...
The aim was to analyze the space-time trend in the proportion of contacts examined among those recorded, according to demographic profile of new leprosy cases in the State of Bahia, Brazil, in the 2003-2014 cohort. This was a state population-based ecological study with temporal and spatial analyses of the proportion of contacts examined among those recorded, according to characteristics of the reference lepros...
A reabilitação baseada em comunidade (RBC), possui perspectiva multisetorial integrada, mas tem limitada interface no Brasil. Objetiva-se caracterizar iniciativas governamentais de RBC nos setores saúde, educação e desenvolvimento social para pessoas com hanseníase, incapacidade ou deficiência. Estudo transversal descritivo de experiências de desenvolvimento inclusivo de pessoas com incapacidade/deficiência (DI...
The study sought to analyze the magnitude of occurrence and the sociodemographic, economic and clinical profiles of leprosy associated with household social networks (HSN), with disease overlap in cities from the states of Bahia, Piauí and Rondônia, Brazil, from 2001 to 2014. This is a cross-sectional study using primary and secondary data regarding new cases of leprosy notified to the Brazilian Information Sys...
Defino Pesquisa como a atividade básica das Ciên- cias na sua indagação e construção da realidade. É a Pesquisa que alimenta a atividade de ensino. Pes- quisar constitui uma atitude e uma prática teórica de constante busca e, por isso, tem a característica do acabado provisório e do inacabado permanente. É uma atividade de aproximação sucessiva da reali- dade que nunca se esgota, fazendo uma combinação particul...
OBJETIVO: Analisar, segundo gênero, as tendências temporais dos coeficientes de detecção de casos novos de hanseníase na população geral e em crianças, do coeficiente de grau 2 de incapacidade física e da proporção de casos multibacilares no estado da Bahia, no período de 2001 a 2014. MÉTODOS: Estudo de série temporal baseado em dados epidemiológicos relativos à hanseníase oriundos do Sistema de Informação de A...
OBJECTIVE: To analyze, stratifield by gender, trends of the new case leprosy detection rates in the general population and in children; of grade 2 disability, and of proportion of multibacillary cases, in the state of Bahia, Brazil from 2001 to 2014. METHODS: A time series study based on leprosy data from the National Information System for Notifiable Diseases. The time trend analysis included Poisson regressio...
The objective of this study is to describe the working process of the Community Health Agents (CHA) as they monitor people with Hansen’s disease. The CHA is a relatively new profession with only playing field in the Unified Health System and focus on disease prevention and health promotion. It is a quantitative study (n = 331), held in Maranhão, Pará, Tocantins and Piaui, between August/2009 and July/ 2010. Dat...
Introduction: Neural damages are among the main factors that contribute to physical disability in leprosy. Systematic monitoring using a broad physical, psychological and social approach is necessary. Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the limitation of activity and social participation and its correlation with disabilities and/or impairment in individuals after being discharged from a m...