ESQUISTOSSOMOSE: UMA DOENÇA NEGLIGENCIADA NO ESTADO DE ALAGOAS

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.97819180328

• Palavras-chave: Doença Tropical Negligenciada, Esquistossomose, Saúde Pública.

• Keywords: Neglected Tropical Disease, Schistosomiasis, Public Health.

• Abstract:

  Notorious infectious diseases

  that spread and perpetuate themselves in

  environments where there is a precarious

  sanitary structure, housing and food conditions,

  besides the difficulty in accessing the health

  system by the people. Schistosomiasis is

  considered an infectious-parasitic condition

  caused by worms of the genus Schistosoma,

  which have as intermediate hosts, snails. In

  Brazil it is an important public health problem

  and according to the World Health Organization

  (2014). This is a descriptive-exploratory

  and retrospective study, with a quantitative

  approach, built by the Study Group and

  Research in Nursing (GEPEnf) of the Centro

  Universitário Cesmac. In the State of Alagoas

  according to DataSUS information between the

  years of 2013 and 2016 there were positive

  cases of 36,808, as shown in Table 1. The

  municipalities with the highest incidence were:

  União dos Palmares, Capela, São José da Laje,

  Viçosa and Branquinha. Having a very high

  index of this parasitic infection, it is remarkable

  that it is a public health problem and that it is

  necessary to reinforce educational actions in

  these communities on this topic. It is observed

  that despite the advances, this pathology is still

  with alarming numbers, strengthening the lack

  of sanitation and continued education for the

  community

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