Trend in the epidemiological risk of leprosy in the state of Goiás-Brazil between 2010 and 2021.

Objective: To analyze trends in epidemiological risk of leprosy in Goiás state, Brazil, and its health macro-regions, between 2010 and 2021.

Method: This is a time series analysis of the composite leprosy epidemiological risk index in Goiás. We used cases held on the Notifiable Health Conditions Information System for calculating indicators separately and risk, classified as high, medium, low and very low.

[Tuberculosis mortality trends and the correlation with the socio-demographic index in Brazil between 2010 and 2019].

The scope of this article is to analyze the trend of the standardized mortality rate (SMR) for tuberculosis and its correlation with the developmental status in Brazil. An ecological time series study was conducted to analyze data of deaths from tuberculosis reported between 2005 and 2019 in all states. Data were extracted from the Mortality Information System, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and the Global Burden of Disease study.

Primary care quality and its effects on leprosy monitoring indicators.

Objectives: to evaluate the quality of primary care in leprosy control actions, to correlate effects on monitoring indicators.

Methods: a cross-sectional study, conducted in Belo Horizonte, from July to September 2014. Interviews with 408 professionals were conducted through the application of a tool that assesses attributes of primary care in leprosy control actions, and monitoring indicators were calculated.

Obstetric violence: influences of the Senses of Birth exhibition in pregnant women childbirth experience.

Excessive interventions during labor in Brazil have been reported as disrespect and abuse and contribute to neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. The Senses of Birth exhibition aims to encourage normal birth to promote health and improve the experience of childbirth in the country. This article describes the characteristics of 555 women who visited the exhibition during pregnancy and their perception of obstetric violence in childbirth.

[Orientation of primary care in actions to control leprosy: factors relating to professionals].

Objective: To identify factors of professionals that relate to the degree of primary health care orientation in the control of leprosy.

Method: Study carried out in 70 units of Family Health Strategy of a capital of Brazil, between July and September 2014. An evaluation instrument applied to 408 health professionals was used.

Integrative literature review of the reported uses of serological tests in leprosy management.

An integrative literature review was conducted to synthesize available publications regarding the potential use of serological tests in leprosy programs. We searched the databases Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, Índice Bibliográfico Espanhol em Ciências da Saúde, Acervo da Biblioteca da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Hanseníase, National Library of Medicine, Scopus, Ovid, Cinahl, and Web of Science for articles investigating the use of serological tests for antibodies against phenolic glycolipid-I (PGL-I), ML0405, ML2331, leprosy IDRI diagnostic-1 (LID-1), and natural disaccharide octyl-leprosy IDRI diagnostic-1 (NDO-LID). From an initial pool of 3.

[Evaluation of the primary care in leprosy control: proposal of an instrument for users].

Objective: Developing an instrument to evaluate the performance of primary health care in the leprosy control actions, from the perspective of users and do the face and content validation.

Method: This is a methodological study carried out in four stages: development of instrument, face and content validation, pre-test, and analysis of test-retest reliability.

Results: The initial instrument submitted to the judgment of 15 experts was composed of 157 items.

[Instrument for evaluating the actions of leprosy control in Primary Care].

The study aimed to construct and validate an instrument to assess the leprosy actions control in primary care from the perspective of community health agents (CHA). This is a methodological study to validate instruments, based on the Classical Test Theory. The instrument was administered to 380 CHA of three municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais, in the period from July to December 2012.