This study aimed to analyze the profile of measles cases in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2007 to 2021 and to describe their diffusion and cluster formation in epidemic years. Neighborhoods were considered as the units of this ecological study. A bivariate analysis of socioeconomic and epidemiological variables was conducted according to previous vaccination and hospitalization.
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January 2024
Objective: To perform a systematic review of scientific publications addressing the use of stratification methods to define risk areas for measles transmission.
Method: Articles published in English, Portuguese, and Spanish in journals indexed in the SciELO, PubMed, and LILACS databases were selected. The search terms AND were used without date limits.