[PDF] Top 20 Trends and spatial patterns of mortality related to neglected tropical diseases in Brazil

... Secondary mortality data may present inconsistencies in terms of coverage (proportion of deaths reported and estimated) and quality of information (Martins-Melo et ... See full document

... region and number of ...used to calculate the rate of mortality associated with arterial hypertension were as follows: 50-59 years; 60-69 years; 70-79 years; 80 or more ...states ... See full document

... disparities in hypertension awareness and management: are there differences among African Americans and Whites living in similar social and healthcare resource environments? Ethn ... See full document

... cause of severe neurological disease mainly in low- and middle- income countries, but data on NCC mortality from endemic areas are ...epidemiological patterns of ... See full document

... scientific and political attention, is a neglected cause of death in ...leprosy- related mortality are located mainly in Brazil’s socio-economically most deprived ... See full document

... regimens and clinical management ...given to new diagnostic tests and vaccines. Investment in health education of the population and continuing education programs for health ... See full document

... Underreporting of cases is one of the limitations of the present ...be related to the incorrect completion of death certificates or to the deliberate omission of ... See full document

... Objective: To evaluate the association between the spatial distribution of neonatal mortality and living conditions, and to analyze trends in the social ... See full document

... incomplete and biased information, despite the improved coverage and quality of SIM datasets during the past years (Martins-Melo et ...coverage and improvements of death records ... See full document

... present in Brazil. Leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, dengue fever and leprosy are present over almost the entire Brazilian ...90% of malaria cases occur in the Northern region of the ... See full document

... Co-infection of tuberculosis (TB)-HIV/AIDS is a persistent public health problem in ...epidemiological patterns and time trends of mortality related to ... See full document

... States of America) for all analyses. he map of NTD mortality rates ...anonymized to prevent identiication of ...Board of the Federal University of Ceará, For- taleza, ... See full document

... white and black individuals with tertiary education in Brazil is the unequal distribution across fields of ...concentrated in areas like education, arts, humanities and ... See full document

... Sen and Mahbub ul Haq and their colleagues in the 1990s [4], the human development index (HDI) is a summary of mea- sure of the major dimensions of human development, including ... See full document

... age of greatest vulnerability has increased and that it is probable that the agent most frequently associ- ated with death from diarrhea has ...gaps in our knowledge on this subject, which indi- ... See full document

... strides in reducing the prevalence and intensity of some of its most important ...control and mass treatment (as well as overall im- provements in sanitation and potable ... See full document

... rounds of MDA in Zanzibar either failed to interrupt the transmission of LF on Pemba, where the TAS cut-off of 18 was surpassed by a huge margin early in the survey, or ... See full document

... expressions of his essence and voices that reveal his origin and ...attribute of the ocean is pride; the attribute of the sun is authority; the attribute of a human is ... See full document

... Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 ... See full document

... malaria mortality was under-reported, especially in the rural areas, another limitation of this study is that it did not take into con- sideration malaria intervention factors such as bed net ... See full document