Leprosy and tuberculosis control scenario of the national program for the improvement of access and quality of primary care in Brazil

In Brazil, despite advances in public health policies aimed at eliminating and controlling infectious and parasitic diseases, the incidence of neglected diseases is still high. The epidemiological scenario in Brazil of diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy evidences a public policy agenda that h...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC health services research 2023-08, Vol.23 (1), p.825-825, Article 825
Hauptverfasser: Ferreira, Glenda R O N, Miranda, Amanda L C, Farias, Viviane A, Martins, Melissa B, Neri, Débora Talitha, Borges, William D, Cunha, Carlos Leonardo F, Dias, Geyse Aline R, Santos, Dirceu C, Sousa, Fabianne J D
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Zusammenfassung:In Brazil, despite advances in public health policies aimed at eliminating and controlling infectious and parasitic diseases, the incidence of neglected diseases is still high. The epidemiological scenario in Brazil of diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy evidences a public policy agenda that has not been resolute in terms of control, nor in terms of elimination. To analyze the actions of diagnosis and treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis in the context of primary health care. In this ecological study, data from the third cycle of the Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Care were extracted from electronic address of the Primary Health Care Secretariat of Brazil in the area of Actions, Programs and Strategies. A total of 37,350 primary health care teams were that answered the questionnaire were eligible, with variables extracted from leprosy and tuberculosis control actions. The municipalities were grouped according to the characteristic of the Brazilian municipality. The partition chi-square and the Residuals Test were used to assess whether there was a difference in the proportion of tuberculosis and leprosy actions between types of municipalities. Statistics were carried out using Minitab 20 and Bioestat 5.3. Regarding the leprosy treatment location, there is a higher proportion of people referred to be treated at the reference in adjacent rural (p = 0.0097) and urban (p 
ISSN:1472-6963
1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/s12913-023-09842-5