Introduction: Leprosy persists as a public health problem in most countries of the Portuguese Speaking Community. Objective: To analyze time series of incidence, prevalence and years of life ordered according to disability (YLD) associated with leprosy in the population of CPLP countries, in addition to comparing the performance of countries according to sociodemographic indices, using data from the Global Burd...
CONTEXTO: No mundo, cerca de 450.000 novos casos de câncer de esôfago são diagnosticados a cada ano. OBJETIVO: Avaliar a tendência das taxas de mortalidade por câncer de esôfago no Brasil entre 1990-2017. MÉTODOS: Estudo de série temporal utilizando dados de mortalidade por câncer de esôfago em residentes ≥30 anos no Brasil de 1990 a 2017. Os dados foram estimados pelo estudo Global Burden of Disease (GBD) e an...
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Objectives: This study aims to describe the actions carried out by the epidemiological surveillance system in Belo Horizonte to address the COVID-19 epidemic and the timeless of the data for detecting transmission in 2020. Methods: The sources of information used by the epidemiological surveillance of the municipality for COVID-19 were identified and the temporal distribution and interval for detection of confi...
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes for small areas in Belo Horizonte, using the Health Vulnerability Index (HVI). Methods: Ecological study with data from the Surveillance of Risk and Protection Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey (Vigitel) conducted in Belo Horizonte, from 2006 to 2013. The self-reported diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension were evaluated. The est...
Objective: To estimate premature mortality due to Noncommunicable Diseases in Brazilian municipalities. Methods: This ecological study estimated premature mortality rates due to cardiovascular, chronic respiratory diseases, neoplasms and diabetes in Brazilian municipalities, for the three-year periods of 2010 to 2012 and 2015 to 2017, and analyzed spatial and temporal distribution of these rates. Data treatment...
Objective: The main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between GDP and three variables related to traffic accidents in Brazilian municipalities: traffic accident mortality, deaths per vehicle; and vehicles per inhabitant. Methods: 2005, 2010 and 2015 terrestrial traffic accident (ATT) mortality rates were estimated using a three years moving average and were standardized, then, we applied th...
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