Territory, neglected diseases and the action of community and endemic combat agents.

Objective: To characterize knowledge, practices, and professional experience of community health agents (ACS) and endemic combat agents (ACE) on leprosy and Chagas disease (DC), during participation in an integrated training workshop in the IntegraDTNs-Bahia project.

Methods: Descriptive and exploratory case study, involving health agents and endemic combat agents participating in a training workshop on the shared role of these professionals in health care and surveillance processes. The project was developed in the municipalities of Anagé, Tremedal and Vitória da Conquista, in the southwestern State of Bahia, 2019-2020.

Socio-demographic and clinical factors of leprosy cases associated with the performance of the evaluation of their contacts in Ceará, Brazil, 2008-2019.

Objective: To analyze the effect of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of new leprosy cases as determinants in the performance of the evaluation of their contacts.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study, with a temporal approach to the evaluation indicator of 100% of contacts examined of each new case (NC) registered in the state of Ceará, Brazil, on the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), in 2008-2019. Logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).

Operational failures of leprosy control in household social networks with overlapping cases in endemic areas in Brazil.

Objective: To analyze institutional/programmatic vulnerability of health services in the development of health care actions for people affected by leprosy and contact surveillance.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2017 based on primary data from a sample of leprosy cases notified between 2001-2014 with overlapping cases in household social networks (HSN) in municipalities in the states of Bahia, Piauí and Rondônia, Brazil.

Results: A total of 233 leprosy cases were analyzed, 154 (66.

[Mortality from leprosy in highly endemic contexts: integrated temporal-spatial analysis in BrazilMortalidad por lepra en zonas de alta endemicidad: análisis espacio-temporal integrado en Brasil].

Objective: To describe temporal trends and spatial patterns of leprosy-related mortality in the North and Northeast of Brazil from 2001 to 2017.

Methods: This population-based, mixed ecological study employed secondary data obtained from the Health Ministry's Mortality Information System. Death certificates were examined for extraction of information on leprosy as underlying or contributing cause of death.

Leprosy in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil: an integrated spatiotemporal approach.

Objective: To analyse the spatiotemporal patterns of leprosy occurrence in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil from 2001 to 2017.

Methods: Mixed population-based ecological study with spatial and temporal trend analysis of epidemiological indicators based on new cases reported to the Information System for Notifiable Diseases of the Ministry of Health occurring in individuals residing in North and Northeast states of Brazil.

Results: A total of 396 987 new cases were analysed; 9.

[Overlapping of new leprosy cases in household contact networks in two municipalities in North and Northeast Brazil, 2001-2014].

The study aimed to analyze the magnitude and sociodemographic profile of leprosy cases linked to household contact networks with overlapping of the disease in two Brazilian municipalities (counties), one in the North and the other in the Northeast, from 2001 to 2014. This was a cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical study based on primary and secondary data from new leprosy cases in Picos, Piauí State, and Rolim de Moura, Rondônia State. "Overlapping" was defined as new cases with the occurrence of at least one more leprosy case in the individual's household contact network.