Prevalence and Prognosis of Leprosy in Pinar del Río

Authors

  • Isabel Moreira Ríos " Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología y Microbiología".
  • Ailadis Rivera Moreira Policlínico Raúl Sánchez. Pinar del Río.
  • Clara Ileana Ballart Ochoa Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río.
  • Neptaly Pérez Moreno Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río.
  • Dariel Eladio Iglesia Romero Policlínico de Viñales. Pinar del Río.

Keywords:

Epidemiology, Leprosy/epidemiology.

Abstract

Introduction: leprosy is a chronic, mildly contagious granulomatous disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae, affecting chiefly the skin, the peripheral nerves, the mucosa of the upper respiratory tracts, the eyes and other structures.
Objective: to estimate the real prevalence by the calculation of the hidden prevalence and the prognosis of leprosy in Pinar del Río for the year 2013.
Material and method: an observational descriptive study of prospective character was carried out; for obtaining the information, compulsory declaration cards and the epidemiological surveys of the leprosy cases were reviewed. Several indicators were calculated: leprosy prevalence rate, hidden prevalence, and the prognosis of the disease by the method of exponential smoothing.
Results: in the last years, the prevalence of leprosy in P. Rio has a tendency towards decrease, existing a difference between the known prevalence and the real prevalence, on the increase of the latter to the sum of the hidden prevalence of 5 cases, with a forecast in the disease for 2013 similar to the previous year.
Conclusion: the study revealed that although leprosy does not constitute a health problem in the Province, there are gaps in the surveillance system, identified after calculation of the estimate of hidden prevalence representing the number of leprosy cases, not diagnosed in the Province in the last five years, which will have an influence in the operational and epidemiological indicators of the leprosy program.

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Author Biographies

Isabel Moreira Ríos, " Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología y Microbiología".

Especialista en primer grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista en primer grado en Higiene  Epidemiología y Microbiología. Máster en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Parasitología. Asistente.

Ailadis Rivera Moreira, Policlínico Raúl Sánchez. Pinar del Río.

Licenciada en Enfermería.

Clara Ileana Ballart Ochoa, Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río.

Licenciada en Matemática y Computación. Instructora.

Neptaly Pérez Moreno, Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río.

Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Instructora.

Dariel Eladio Iglesia Romero, Policlínico de Viñales. Pinar del Río.

Licenciado en Cultura Física. Especialista en Rehabilitación. Instructor.

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2014-02-27

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Moreira Ríos I, Rivera Moreira A, Ballart Ochoa CI, Pérez Moreno N, Iglesia Romero DE. Prevalence and Prognosis of Leprosy in Pinar del Río. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2014 Feb. 27 [cited 2025 Nov. 6];18(1):57-65. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/1280

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