Perfil Clínico Epidemiológico da Hanseníase: Uma Revisão Integrativa

Abstract

Objective: Discuss from the national and international scientific production the epidemiological clinical profile of leprosy. Method: This is an integrative review of literature that were used as identification strategy and selection of articles raising indexed studies in the databases available on the Virtual Health Library - VHL: Lilacs, Medline taking into account the scientific production during the study period from 2007 to 2016. in this literature review conducted by the internet used the descriptors based on descriptors in Health Sciences (from CS): "Leprosy (Leprosy), neglected diseases (neglected Diseases), epidemiological surveillance (Epidemiological surveillance). Results and Discussion: Based on the information that has been extracted from the data obtained from this study, it was observed that the publication period was between 2009 and 2016, especially 40% of the studies (06 articles) in 2015 and 27% (04 articles) in 2016. the journal that had the highest number of publications in this work was the Journal Hansenologia Internationalis, with 05 trials (33%). To better design the extracted information of the items, two thematic aspects were taken into account: "The Clinic of leprosy" and "The Epidemiology of Leprosy"