Epidemiological profile of leprosy among children and teenagers in a family health unit of the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Epidemiological profile of leprosy among children and teenagers in a family health unit of the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Received 07th August 2017; Received in revised form 20th September, 2017; Accepted 26th October, 2017; Published online 12th November, 2017
Copyright © 2017, Eliana Lessa Cordeiro 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.
Objective: To identify the epidemiological profile of leprosy among children and teenagers in a Family Health Unit in the city of Recife-State of Pernambuco, in the last 4 years. Method: The present study was composed of 16 medical records of children and adolescents who were or are being treated for leprosy in the years 2010 to 2013, being of the document, and exploratory, retrospective type with a quantitative approach, carried out in April/2014. Results: The results show that the majority are female children (56.2%) between 4 and 8 years of age (37.5%), brown (75%),and with elementary education from 1stto 4th degree (37.5%) and in almost the entire sample are students (93.7%). Conclusion: Leprosy continues to be a public health problem, requiring measures that can reduce the prevalence of this disease in the community, aiming at strategies to break the transmission cycle of leprosy, as well as identifying and performing the diagnosis and early treatment.
