Monitoring of Acute Chagas Disease cases in Brazil: a descriptive study

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Sérgio Beltrão de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Sousa Júnior , Célio Pereira de, Sobral, Ramon Veloso Sousa, Bezerra, Jade de Moraes, Ampuero, Naiana Fleury da Fonseca, Malaquias, Allan Costa, Antunes, Symara Rodrigues, Feio, Danielle Cristinne Azevedo, Lima, Patrícia Danielle Lima de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/27487
• topic: Chagas’ disease; American Trypanosomiasis; COVID-19; Public Health Surveillance; Applications of Epidemiology.; Enfermedad de Chagas; Tripanossomíase americana; Vigilancia de la Salud Pública; COVID-19; Aplicaciones de la Epidemiología.; Doença de Chagas; Tripanossomíase Americana; Vigilância em Saúde Pública; COVID-19; Aplicações da Epidemiologia.

Introduction: Although identified more than 100 years ago, Chagas Disease remains uncontrolled in Brazil, both due to the unstable number of cases and the lack of effective public policies to combat it. In a recent context, the monitoring of this and other neglected tropical diseases may have lost quality due to the arrival of new acute diseases in the country and the resulting work overload in health care and attention services. Objective: to evaluate the epidemiological profile of ACD by comparing the historical series available in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), tabulated between 2011 and 2020. Method: Public data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System collected by the System were used Single Health. Results: Applied the quantitative techniques of descriptive epidemiology, it is suggested that, in endemic and highly vulnerable areas for the disease, COVID-19 may have contributed to the worsening of underreporting of Chagas, which showed a reduction close to 50% compared to to the average of previous years. Conclusion: Assuming that at this moment the eradication of Chagas Disease and COVID-19 do not seem close, the strengthening of Health Surveillance is a critical success factor for the construction of more favorable health scenarios.