OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of dengue fever reports and how they relate to the definition of case and severity. METHODS Diagnostic test assessment was conducted using cross-sectional sampling from a universe of 13,873 patients treated during the fifth epidemiological period in health institutions from 11 Colombian departments in 2013. The test...
Published in BMC Infectious Diseases
A urbanização da leishmaniose visceral tem sido relacionada a modificações ambientais causadas por ações antrópicas, pelo rápido processo migratório, pela interação e mobilização de reservatórios silvestres e cães infectados para áreas sem transmissão, e pela adaptação do vetor Lutzomiya longipalpis ao peridomicílio. Entre 1980 e 2005, o Brasil reg...
Social networks, but also some media have highlighted the lack of preparedness and response, both internationally and nationally, to the epidemic of Ebola that Africa is suffering, and that threatens to spread outside the continent. These opinions do not seem to conform to reality, since both international organizations such as WHO; and regional le...
Background: Dating violence in young adults is an important public health issue because of its magnitude and impact on health. The goal of this study is to determine the prevalence 12 months before the survey by sex and its association with socio-demographic and health risk behavior. Methods: Data were drawn from the Non-communicable Disease Risk-F...
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la distribución espacial del riesgo de dengue y su relación con condiciones socioambientales. Se trata de un estudio ecológico del cómputo de los casos de dengue autóctono, en el Municipio de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, año 2007, englobados en 47 áreas de cobertura de los centros de salud del muni...
This study aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of dengue risk and its association with socio-environmental conditions. This was an ecological study of the counts of autochthonous dengue cases in the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, in the year 2007, aggregated according to 47 coverage areas of municipal health centers. Spati...
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la distribución espacial del riesgo de dengue y su relación con condiciones socioambientales. Se trata de un estudio ecológico del cómputo de los casos de dengue autóctono, en el Municipio de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, año 2007, englobados en 47 áreas de cobertura de los centros de salud del muni...
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la distribución espacial del riesgo de dengue y su relación con condiciones socioambientales. Se trata de un estudio ecológico del cómputo de los casos de dengue autóctono, en el Municipio de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil, año 2007, englobados en 47 áreas de cobertura de los centros de salud del muni...
This study aimed to analyze the spatial distribution of dengue risk and its association with socio-environmental conditions. This was an ecological study of the counts of autochthonous dengue cases in the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, in the year 2007, aggregated according to 47 coverage areas of municipal health centers. Spati...
