Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are highly prevalent communicable diseases in tropical
and subtropical countries, generally not economically attractive for drug development and …

Objetivos: identificar as á reas de alto risco da hansení ase no perí odo de 2001 a 2015 no
Brasil. Mé todos: trata-se de um estudo ecoló gico de aná lise espacial, segundo dados dos …

Background Healthcare accessibility, a key public health issue, includes potential (spatial
accessibility) and realized access (healthcare utilization) dimensions. Moreover, the …

Objectives: to identify high-risk areas of leprosy in Brazil from 2001 to 2015. Methods: this is
an ecological study of spatial analysis based on Brazilian municipalities. Spatial scan …

Background Despite public health efforts to reduce the leprosy burden in Yunnan, China,
leprosy remains an important public health problem in some specific areas. We analyzed the …

Background Leprosy is is still considered a public health issue and in Colombia 7–10% of
new cases are found in children, indicating both active transmission and social inequality …

Objetivo: Caracterizar a tendência temporal e o comportamento espacial da hanseníase no
Brasil, de 2011 a 2021. Métodos: Estudo ecológico, com dados do Sistema de Informação …

Background Leprosy is a public health problem and a challenge for endemic countries,
especially in their border regions where there are intense migration flows. The study aimed …

This study's objective was to estimate the temporal trends of leprosy according to sex and
age groups, as well as to estimate and predict the progression of the disease in a …

The detection of leprosy cases is distributed unequally in Brazil, with high-risk clusters
mainly in the North and Northeast regions. Knowledge on epidemiology and spatiotemporal …