Leprosy in children under 15 years in the city of Juazeiro – BA

• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Luiza Taciana Rodrigues de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Fernandes, Tânia Rita Moreno de Oliveira, Bastos, Lívia Dias Mangueira, Luna, Igara Cavalcanti Feitosa, Machado, Lara Barreto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hansenologia Internationalis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/35085
• topic: hanseníase; epidemiologia; criança; leprosy; epidemiology; children

Leprosy is a disease that requires attention of agencies and health professionals. The high endemicity of the disease in one location can be detected through the detection rate in children under 15 years, when greater than 10 per 100,000 population indicates a high rate of transmissibility of the disease in the middle. Juazeiro in 2010, this rate was 41.89 per 100,000 inhabitants. The present study deals with a project linked to the Education Program for Health Work (PET-Health Surveillance) and the Federal University of São Francisco Valley (UNIVASF), which aims to identify and analyze the data according to information System Diseases and Notifications (SINAN) and Information System of Primary Care (ISPC) reported cases of leprosy in children under 15 in 2010. Among the data analyzed, it is emphasized that the 183 leprosy cases reported in 2010, 10% (18 cases) occurred in children younger than 15 years, occurring predominantly in the suburbs, in the age groups 6-11 years and 12 to 14 years, is prevalent among females, the predominant operational classification was paucibacillary. The implementation and effectiveness of new shares linked to PET are characterized as extremely important for the city, given its hyperendemicity for leprosy. Health education, training, encouraging proper notification of cases and monitoring of patients and their contacts are actions that can improve the indexes found and quality of life of the population.