Prevalência de sintomáticos respiratórios (Sr’s) nos consultantes de primeira vez no município de Fortaleza, Ceará, 2001

• Autor(a) principal: Mota, Maria Rosalha Teixeira
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7056
• topic: Doenças Respiratórias; Tuberculose; Prevalência

The Tuberculosis is still a serious Public Health problem. The Morbidity and Mortality for all the forms of the diseases has been increasing in the last years. The Respiratory Symptomatic (RS) have an important role as indicators of the programmatic control actions. In the present work a transversal study was carried out. study, aiming to determine the percentage of SR in the population older than 14 years old that seek the Public Health Services in Fortaleza. The results demonstrate that a total of 1200 patients, 23,58% were RS with any time of duration of the symptoms and 6.50% with the time of 3 weeks or more. The percentage of RS ranged from 4,5% to 9,5% in the different regions of the Fortaleza City, as well as from 5,1% to 20,5% in different age groups. From the detected RS with symptoms of 3 weeks of duration time or more, 70.5% went to the Health Center for reasons other than respiratory symptoms.