[PDF] Top 20 Rev. Saúde Pública vol.41 suppl.1

... Apesar de ser uma doença potencialmente prevenível e curável, a TB é ainda hoje um grande problema de saúde pública nos países em desenvolvimento, incluindo o Brasil. No mundo, estima-se em dois bilhões o ... See full document

... Table 1 shows the number of municipalities per cluster, averages and standard-error (SE) of percentages of performance ...cluster 1 – good, presenting low proportion of dropout, high rate of cure, high ... See full document

... The protective effect of the BCG vaccine for pulmo- nary tuberculosis was found to be between zero and 80%, in clinical and case-control studies carried out in various countries since [r] ... See full document

... Reduction in annual TB incidence rates resulting from record linkage, classi fi cation and removal of improper repeat records from SINAN-TB database may have actually be even greater[r] ... See full document

... Initially, eight indicators were established for quality of detection and follow-up of cases. Three of them were excluded, either because they were repeated informa- tion, or because of the low distinction among cities: ... See full document

... de Saúde Pública - CGLAB), of the laboratory TB diagnoses for public and private laboratories of the capital cities and priority municipalities and in the health services which have introduced PCT and that ... See full document

... da Saúde (Ministry of Health) presented the “Plano Nacional de Mobilização para eliminação da Hanseníase e Controle da Tuberculo- se em Municípios Prioritários por meio da Atenção Básica” (“National Plan of ... See full document

... In addition to the points mentioned above, it will also be necessary to stimulate the supply of new drugs presenta- tions for treating TB in order to facilitate administration and increase the effectiveness of the ... See full document

... Other entities have opened diverse important fronts, especially in the state of São Paulo. The same re- presentative appointed by the Fórum ONG-Aids do Estado (Forum of AIDS NGO of the State) to deal with the issue of ... See full document

... scores of childhood TB, highlighting the limitations of such scores, especially in high TB-HIV co-infec- tion areas. However, a more detailed reading of this work enables to see that the punctuation score by the Ministry ... See full document

... No entanto, o Programa Nacional de Controle da Tu- berculose, reconhecendo o esforço e a qualidade das informações de tuberculose de São Paulo, premiou o Estado por possuir informação [r] ... See full document

... de Saúde; (f) a mobilização e a participação de movimentos sociais e de portadores da doença; e (g) a associação tuberculose/ HIV e o crescimento de casos multi-drogas ... See full document

... Yet this course of action faces great challenges at all levels of health care and social organization: Brazil’s huge territorial area marked by geographical and cultural differences bet[r] ... See full document

... Figure 2 represents the amount of articles, with predo- minance of original articles compared to review and case reports in the period. In the Table, publications can be observed regarding the study model. Regarding type ... See full document

... Figure 1 shows annual TB mortality rates (all clinical forms) for the period 1980–2004. There can be noted an overall declining trend, from 6,916 deaths in 1980 (5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants) to 4,928 deaths in ... See full document

... RESULTS: In 2004, in Brazil, tuberculosis incidence rate was 41 per 100,000 inhabitants and 74,540 new cases were notifi ed. Of these, 52.8% were pulmonary tuberculosis with positive bacilloscopy, 24.1% were under ... See full document

... In Brazil, several facts followed the development of the I Inquérito Nacional de Resistência (1st National Survey on Resistance), whose outcomes were published in 1998, 2 they were: c[r] ... See full document

... Nevertheless, the persistence of the unfamiliarity concerning its causes and the inef fi cacy of its treatment justify the collective horror towards the disease, which associates the [r] ... See full document

... de Saúde Pública had the aim of contributing towards improving the understanding of the reasons why tuberculosis persists as an important public health problem in this ... See full document

... Blood samples were collected after interviews by ve- nipuncture through the Vacutainer system. Blood was collected into two dry tubes and sent to analysis in two reference laboratories in the city of São Paulo. The ... See full document