Temporal trend of leprosy in a region of high endemicity in the Brazilian Northeast

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the temporal trend and epidemiological patterns of leprosy indicators in Sobral, a municipality countryside of the state of Ceará, from 2001 to 2016. Method: a time series study based on data from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System. The time t...

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Main Authors: Thayza Miranda Pereira, Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva, Maria Socorro de Araújo Dias, Lorena Dias Monteiro, Maria Rocineide Ferreira da Silva, Olga Maria de Alencar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem
Series:Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672019000501356&lng=en&tlng=en