Epidemiological panorama of leptospirosis in the state of Pará/Brazil, in the period from 2012 to 2017
International Journal of Development Research
Epidemiological panorama of leptospirosis in the state of Pará/Brazil, in the period from 2012 to 2017
Received 30th December, 2018; Received in revised form 17th January, 2019; Accepted 21st February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Raphael Resende Gustavo Galvão et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study aimed to describe the epidemiological panorama of Leptospirosis in the state of Pará from 2012 to 2017 highlighting the variables: age, race, confirmation criterion, zone of residence, municipalities, schooling, sex and evolution. This is a retrospective, descriptive, quantitative approach, carried out by means of the situational survey of Leptospirosis in the State of Pará through the database of the Information system of grievance notification with subsequent selection and extraction of the variables of interest. The study demonstrated the prevalence of leptospirosis in the male population in the brown color, the predominant age group of 20-39 years, in the urban zone of residence, and the most used confirmation criterion was laboratory-clinical, the predominant county was in Belém, the predominant schooling was from the 5th to the 8th grade, and there were 87 deaths due to the reported illness. Therefore, the importance of educative actions for the low-income population living in agglomerated areas, bordering streams and it is up to the government and health managers to devote a little more attention to this issue.
