Epidemiological Surveillance Systems
Mostrando 13-24 de 28 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Estimativa de Subnotificação de casos de AIDS em Fortaleza,Ceará 2002 e 2003: uma aplicação da Técnica de captura-recaptura / Estimate of underreporting of AIDS in adults in Fortaleza in the period 2002-2003 using the capture-recapture method
Underreporting is one of the major problems challenging epidemiologic AIDS surveillance. The objective of this study was to estimate the level of underreporting of AIDS in adults in Fortaleza in the period 2002-2003 using the capture-recapture method. In addition, the level of underreporting at two hospitals for AIDS referral (Hospital São José HSJ, and Ho
Publicado em: 2006
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14. Clinical and epidemiological analysis of pregnant women accidentally vaccinated against rubella / "Análise clínico-epidemiológica das gestantes inadvertidamente vacinadas contra a rubéola"
INTRODUCTION: In the years 1999 and 2000, rubella outbreaks reaching mostly young adults resulted in an increased number of cases of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in Brazil. State Vaccination Campaigns aiming at women at childbearing age were promoted around the country to control the disease, recommending that vaccination of pregnant women should be avoided a
Publicado em: 2006
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15. PREDICTIVE FACTORS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT OUTCOMES IN RECIFE-PE: a contribution to epidemiological surveillance actions / Fatores preditivos para o resultado de tratamento da tuberculose pulmonar no município de Recife-PE: uma contribuição para as ações de vigilância epidemiológica
This study aimed to identify and analyze predictive factors of favorable treatment outcome related to pulmonary tuberculosis cases residing in Recife and diagnosed between 2001 and 2004. Initially, an exploratory study was carried out to identify lost data (blank, unknown and inconsistent) in the selected data in the Reportable Health Events Information Syst
Publicado em: 2006
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16. Epidemiological profile of the canine population assisted by the Service of First Attendance of the Zoonoses Control Center Paulo Dacorso Filho, Rio de Janeiro-Brazil / Perfil epidemiológico da população canina assistida pelo Serviço de Pronto Atendimento do Centro de Controle de Zoonoses Paulo Dacorso Filho, Rio de Janeiro-Brasil
Zoonoses Control Centers (ZCC) have as basic attribution the prevention and control of zoonoses, developing systems of epidemiological and sanitary surveillance. However, the data obtained by these ZCCs have been scarcely used for epidemiological studies. This essay had the objective to discover the epidemiological profile of the canine population assisted b
Publicado em: 2006
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17. A Importância dos centros de informação e assistência toxicologica e sua contribuiçãona sua minimização dos agravos à saúde e ao meio ambiente no Brasil
According to estimates, thousands of products that are potentially hazardous to human health and environmental homeostasis 2 (medicines, cleaning products, pesticides, cosmetics, and other chemical and biological agents) are now on the market, and that dozens more enter the market every year. Based on an analysis of documents and the pertinent legislation, t
Publicado em: 2006
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18. Os casos que não se confirmaram como dengue durante a epidemia de dengue no municipio de Campinas/SP, 2002 / Unconfirmed dengue cases during the Campinas dengue epidemic of 2002
In 2002 the city of Campinas, SP, Brazil reported its greatest dengue epidemic. The Epidemiological Surveillance System received about 10,000 notifications of possible dengue cases. Over 70% of the cases were not confirmed by laboratory methods (MAC-ELISA, performed at the Instituto Adolfo Lutz, the state public health laboratory). During the peak of the out
Publicado em: 2005
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19. Vigilância epidemiológica e vigilância da qualidade da água para consumo humano. Desafios para o município: estudo de caso em Barbacena-MG / Epidemiologic surveillance and drinking water quality surveillance. Challenges for the municipality. Case study in Barbacena Minas Gerais state
The relation between drinking water quality and diseases occurrence is already well known. In this sense, supplying safe water, that is, which matches the standards established by the legislation and does not represent any human health risk, is crucial to ensure the populations health. Amongst the activities of the Environmental Surveillance related to drink
Publicado em: 2005
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20. A molecular and epidemiological based-work system for detection of bovine tuberculosis focus in the state of São Paulo / Sistema de detecção de focos de tuberculose bovina no Estado de São Paulo utilizando métodos moleculares e epidemiológicos
A partnership between the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health (VPS) of the FMVZ-USP, the Coordination of Agriculture and Animal Defense of the State of São Paulo, and the Federal Inspection Service (SIF) was established to organize a work system for detection of bovine tuberculosis focus in the state, based on routine methods of c
Publicado em: 2005
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21. Vigilância das meningites na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, MG, 1999: o uso dos sistemas de informação em saúde e o método da captura-recaptura na estimação da incidência e da subnotificação
The purpose of this study was to evaluate surveillance for meningitis in the Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1999, on the basis of cases registered in three data sources systems: the mandatory notifiable disease surveillance system SINAN; the hospital registers SIH-SUS and the national mortality registry SIM. Epidemiological pro
Publicado em: 2002
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22. The role of epidemiology and surveillance systems in the control of sexually transmitted diseases.
Surveillance and epidemiological studies are essential components of effective control programmes for sexually transmitted diseases. While other forms of basic biomedical research may add to our understanding of why an exposure or behaviour causes or prevents disease, only epidemiology allows the quantification of the magnitude of the exposure-disease relati
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23. Hypervirulent strains of Clostridium difficile
North America has seen increasing numbers of hospitalised patients and others in nursing homes and the community, with more severe Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea. This is also described in Northern Europe and surveillance systems are being developed or improved to monitor the situation. One strain (ribotype O27) is described in detail and, like o
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24. School injuries in an occupational health perspective: what do we learn from community based epidemiological studies?
OBJECTIVE: The paper reviews community based epidemiological studies of injuries at school. It discusses their main findings in the light of a frame of analysis that emphasizes multidimensionality of causes, and in a Swedish context, where school injuries are legally regarded as occupational injuries. METHODS: A frame of analysis, inspired by research in the