Use of Interrupted Time Series Analysis in Understanding the Course of the Congenital Syphilis Epidemic in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Valentim, Ricardo, Silva, Lyrene Fernandes da, Souza, Gustavo Fontoura de, Lima, Thaísa Gois Farias de Moura Santos, Santos, Marquiony Marques dos, Oliveira, Carlos Alberto Pereira de, Miranda, Angelica Espinosa, Oliveira, Aliete Cristina Gomes Dias Pedrosa da Cunha, Kumar, Vivekanandan, Atun, Rifat
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/info:doi:DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2021.100163
• topic: public health; policy; interrupted time series; segmented regression analysis; notifiable disease; syphilis

To fight against the rising incidence of syphilis, the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MoH) launched the "Syphilis No!" Project (SNP), with specific resources funded by a parliamentary amendment. Then, in 2018, a national rapid response started to be implemented on the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS, Sistema Único de Saúde) in two strategic lines (1) to reinforce SUS's universal actions and (2) to implement specific ones to 100 municipalities chosen by the MoH as priorities for syphilis congenital response. In 2015, such localities represented 6895% of congenital syphilis cases in Brazil. In this context, SNP has implemented actions to strengthen epidemiological surveillance of acquired syphilis and congenital syphilis by instituting an integrated and collaborative response through health services networks and reinforcing interstate relations.