Comportamento epidemiológico da tuberculose em Uberlândia(MG) situações coletivas de risco, de 1995 a 2003

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infective-contagious disease which even being of easy treatment still gets to a great layer of the population by difficulties involving the correct diagnosis, by under-reporting and by high rates of treatment abandoning. Besides, there is an increasing presence of factors to its occurrence due to low socio-economic conditions of a great part of the population. Although there are efficient drugs given for free to the population, the high incidence of this disease demands the definition of other control methods in addition to the actual ones. The target of this work is, through epidemiological review ín the period within 1995 and 2003, to establish the risk areas to the occurrence of Tuberculosis in Uberlândia, contributing this way with one more control instrument, which allows the prioritizing of actions and optimistic usage of available resources. There have been used epidemiological methods and geo-processing to the definition of risk areas and it has been noticed the existence of two groups of neighborhoods offering different kinds of risk which demand different kinds of control. The first group is formed by Santa Monica, Brasil, Martins and Tibery areas which are neighborhoods that do not have low socio-economic conditions, but even this way have shown the biggest incidence in the areas of study, offering this way, the biggest risk of spread disease. On the other hand, the Joana D’Arc/ Dom Almir, Morada do Sol and Jd. Holanda areas offered the biggest risk of getting the disease by the high rates of incidence noticed. The specific actions towards the areas with the biggest incidence in absolute numbers and in rates must be implemented at Unidades Basicas de Saude (Health Basic Units) and mainly through the Programa de Saude da Família (Family Health Program) already implemented in Uberlândia.