Publications by authors named "Antonio Vieira Ramos"
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- The study examines factors related to multibacillary leprosy in northeastern Brazil, highlighting its significance for public health strategies.
- It employs a cross-sectional methodology, analyzing leprosy cases between 2008 and 2017 across 16 municipalities, focusing on sociodemographic and clinical variables.
- The results identify specific risk factors, such as age, gender, education level, and types of disability, without noting any protective factors, which could inform future disease control strategies.
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- The study highlights the importance of using spatial analysis to understand the tuberculosis-diabetes comorbidity in a specific municipality in northeastern Brazil.
- The research conducted in Imperatriz, Maranhão, revealed significant spatial clusters with high occurrences of comorbidity cases, indicating specific urban areas at elevated risk.
- The findings underscore the need for targeted public health interventions in vulnerable regions to address social inequalities and improve health outcomes.
Introduction: Prisons are high-risk settings for drug-resistant tuberculosis because the prevalence of the tuberculosis (TB) is much higher than in the general population. This study to investigated the factors associated with drug-resistant tuberculosis in prisons in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Methodology: Retrospective cohort of drug-resistant TB cases for incarcerated people in São Paulo state, reported in the Tuberculosis Patient Control System between 2006 and 2016.
Survival time among patients who were diagnosed with tuberculosis, the precocious deaths and associated factors in southern Brazil.
Trop Med Health
April 2021
Background: A diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) does not mean that the disease will be treated successfully, since death may occur even among those who are known to the health services. Here, we aimed to analyze patient survival time from the diagnosis of TB to death, precocious deaths, and associated factors in southern Brazil.
Methods: We conducted a longitudinal study with patients who were diagnosed with TB and who died due to the disease between 2008 and 2015 in southern Brazil.
Introduction: Brazil is in the 19th position of priority countries for the control of TB/HIV coinfection, so we aimed to analyze the social and health services contexts that are associated with TB/HIV coinfection in São Paulo state.
Methodology: Ecological study conducted in 645 cities of the state. The study population consisted of 10,389 new cases of TB/HIV coinfection in state residents between 2010 and 2015.
Objective: To evaluate the magnitude of social determinants in areas of risk of mortality due to tuberculosis in a high incidence city.
Method: Ecological study, which recruited the cases of tuberculosis deaths registered between 2006 and 2016 in the capital of Mato Grosso-Brazil. The social determinants were obtained from the Human Development Units.