Imported malaria in Rio de Janeiro state between 2007 and 2015: an epidemiologic approach.

Imported malaria is a malaria infection diagnosed outside the area where it was acquired and is induced by human migration and mobility. This retrospective study was performed based on secondary data from 2007 to 2015. In total, 736 cases of imported malaria (79.

Geographical information system (GIS) modeling territory receptivity to strengthen entomological surveillance: Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) case study in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.

Background: Extra-Amazonian malaria mortality is 60 times higher than the Amazon malaria mortality. Imported cases correspond to approximately 90% of extra-Amazonian cases. Imported malaria could be a major problem if it occurs in areas with receptivity, because it can favor the occurrence of outbreaks or reintroductions of malaria in those areas.

Socio-spatial inequalities related to tuberculosis in the city of Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro.

Introduction: Tuberculosis remains as a global public health problem and its occurrence and distribution is associated with social inequalities. Itaboraí is among the priority Brazilian municipalities for tuberculosis control. The study aimed to combine social indicators into a composite indicator to measure differences in living conditions of the population in Itaboraí, as well as evidence of health inequalities related to tuberculosis.

Vulnerability to the transmission of human visceral leishmaniasis in a Brazilian urban area.

Objective: To analyze the determinants for the occurrence of human visceral leishmaniasis linked to the conditions of vulnerability.

Methods: This is an ecological study, whose spatial analysis unit was the Territorial Analysis Unit in Araguaína, State of Tocantins, Brazil, from 2007 to 2012. We have carried out an analysis of the sociodemographic and urban infrastructure situation of the municipality.

Tuberculosis as a marker of inequities in the context of socio-spatial transformation.

Objective: This study aims to analyze the association between the incidence of tuberculosis and different socioeconomic indicators in a territory of intense transformation of the urban space.

Methods: This is an ecological study, whose analysis units were the neighborhoods of the city of Itaboraí, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The data have been analyzed by generalized linear models.

[Use of local level indicators for the spatial analysis of morbidity due to diarrhea and its relation with lifestyle conditions].

Every child had an average of three episodes of diarrhea per year in developing countries in the twentieth century. The decrease of the number of deaths due to diarrhea in Brazil was more closely related to the use of control techniques than to changes in lifestyle conditions. This article seeks to analyze the spatial distribution of morbidity due to diarrhea among children and its relation with lifestyle conditions.

Distribution of dengue vectors in neighborhoods with different urbanization types of Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are vectors of dengue viruses, which cause endemic disease in the city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. More than 53 thousand cases have been registered in this city since the first epidemic in 1998.

[Prevalence of hepatitis B virus markers within household contacts in the State of Amazonas].

The aim of our investigation was to evaluate, with a prevalence study, the modes of transmission of Hepatitis B virus (HBV), within infected subjects and their household contacts in the State of Amazon, western Brazilian Amazon. We studied 97 index cases and 258 household contacts. Out of the 258 household contacts of HBV, 51.

[Strengths and limitations of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal AIDS Information System as an instrument for epidemiological surveillance].

This study analyzes the Rio de Janeiro Municipal AIDS Information System, specifically the system's strengths and limitations in the epidemic's current context, from a broader perspective of epidemiological surveillance. The objective was to provide a brief description of the system, considering its different components. The authors further analyzed records pertaining to the reporting and investigation of AIDS cases from 1985 to 1995 and an update of the database as a contribution to the system's quality.