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Perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes com tuberculose pulmonar atendidos na Unidade Básica de Saúde da Pedreira
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2003) BARBOSA, Heloisa Helena Moreira de Moraes; REZENDE, Manoel Barbosa de
The Pulmonary Tuberculosis is still one of the biggest public health problems all over the world, including Brazil. The control situation aggravates because it's difficult to implant an efficient program because of the proportion between the necessities and the available resources, and even for the limited covery and utilization of the installed capacity of attention, besides, in the end of the 80's, for the HIV propagation. With the aim, of describing the epidemiological profile of the patients infected with the pulmonary tuberculosis, attended in the Basic Health Unit of Pedreira Neighborhood, in the Belem of Para city. 143 patients, considering all rate of ages and sex, with pulmonary tuberculosis, were part of this study, all this data was collected between January of 2001 and July of 2002. It was analyzed the following aspects: signals and symptoms, baciloscopy, thorax radiology, number of communicants in home, antecedent case of pulmonary tuberculosis in family, time between the beginning of the symptoms and the beginning of the treatment, kinds of discharge of treatment, patient's provenance, school degrees, recidivistic cases, occupation and its qualification, familiar resources, daily meals, living conditions, kind of the house's wall, number of windows, number of rooms x the number of people, canalized water, electric light, kind of home fosse of the water closet, smoking and alcoholics practices. Results: Cough was the most frequent symptom with 89,51%; the positive result of baciloscopic test was 60,01%; the radiological founds with infiltration were 42,86%; 84,62% of the patients have at least one in-home communicant, 57,34% have at least one case of pulmonary tuberculosis in family; 65,04% were late 2 months to start the treatment after the symptoms had started; 94,23% received discharge for cure; 3,85% received discharge for quitting and 1,92% discharge for death; 78% from Belem; 7% are illiterate people and 51,75% have not completed the junior high school; 11,19% of recidivous; considering the people that have an occupation, 68,49% don't have qualification; 86% have income less than 6 minimum salaries; 43,68% of the patients are alcoholics. The conclusions were that the predominant sex and rate of ages were respectively male and from 16 to 45; the social, economic, cultural, living aspects were very poor, and it's very important to understand that this disease demonstrate its social determination. Therefor, the biological processes of health are part of the social life of the collectivity, by this way, the health and the diseases are equidistant points in the same process that is a part of a major ground called life. Sanitary education talk is a educational way to create a healthy habit that will certainly contribute to a better human's potentials development. This study proves the researches that were made before.