Epidemiologia da tuberculose em crianças menores de 15 anos atendidas nas unidades municipais de saúde

Abstract

The tuberculosis in childreen is by definition an indicator of recent transmission and in this case is an alert signal. The object of this study was describe the tuberculosis epidemiologies aspects in childhood. In a register research was colected 80 childreen of 18 Belém's Health Minicipal Unit. It was checked that the age of 10 until <15 years was more attacked by the disease, with significant diferences between the sexes. In antropometric avaliation 17,15% of theses childreen showed low weight in several degrees to the rate W/A . The more frequently tuberculosis symptomatology was in association with the pulmonar clinical form in 77,50% of the childreen. The BAAR and the radiologic were the most important tests to detect the illness, 76,25% of the childreen presented vacinal scar and the bad socioeconomic conditions was a decisive factor to the infectious process. The hard apliccation of the intervention means in disponibility in association with the socio economic's improvement conditions are important. So, this is a protection to avoid that any interruption in the tuberculosis control affect immediately the young people generation.