TY - JOUR
KW - leprosy
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Descriptive
KW - Mortality
KW - Brazil
KW - Mato Grosso
AU - Ramos ARS
AU - Benevides Ferreira SM
AU - IgnottiI E
AB - OBJECTIVE: to describe records of deaths from leprosy contained on the Mato Grosso Mortality Information System (SIM) and Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2000 to 2007. 
METHODS: Cross-sectional epidemiological study analyzing deaths from leprosy registered on the SIM system from 2000 to 2007 and identified on SINAN system in Mato Grosso. 
RESULTS: 88 of the 129 registered leprosy deaths were identified on the SINAN system as leprosy cases. 36 of these had been discharged after being cured. The most frequent primary cause of death was nonspecific leprosy (n = 88, 75.9%). 
CONCLUSION: half the leprosy death records in Mato Grosso include cured cases and these therefore did not die from leprosy. The cured and those who died during polychemotherapy were characterized by older age, low education level or having been lepromatous cases.
BT - Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
CN - RAMOS 2013
DO - 10.5123/S1679-49742013000200009
IS - 2
J2 - Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde 
LA - por
N2 - OBJECTIVE: to describe records of deaths from leprosy contained on the Mato Grosso Mortality Information System (SIM) and Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2000 to 2007. 
METHODS: Cross-sectional epidemiological study analyzing deaths from leprosy registered on the SIM system from 2000 to 2007 and identified on SINAN system in Mato Grosso. 
RESULTS: 88 of the 129 registered leprosy deaths were identified on the SINAN system as leprosy cases. 36 of these had been discharged after being cured. The most frequent primary cause of death was nonspecific leprosy (n = 88, 75.9%). 
CONCLUSION: half the leprosy death records in Mato Grosso include cured cases and these therefore did not die from leprosy. The cured and those who died during polychemotherapy were characterized by older age, low education level or having been lepromatous cases.
PY - 2013
T2 - Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
TI - [Deaths having leprosy as underlying cause among residents of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, 2000-2007]
TT - Óbitos por hanseníase como causa básica em residentes no Estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil, no período de 2000 a 2007
UR - http://scielo.iec.pa.gov.br/pdf/ess/v22n2/v22n2a09.pdf
VL - 22
ER -