Perfil epidemiológico dos novos casos de dengue notificados no município de Sousa-PB.

Abstract

Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by the female Aedes Aegypti gender and considered mosquitoes a major problem of public health worldwide. Paraiba the epidemiological pattern of dengue in the state is endemic, characterized by months and years of low and high endemicity. About 550,000 patients require hospitalization and 20,000 die from dengue. Every year, estimates 50 million to 100 million new infections by dengue virus in the world. In Brazil, in 2009, it was confirmed 2,271 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, with 154 deaths. The study has the general objective to identify the number of new cases of dengue reported in epidemiological surveillance of the municipality of Sousa / PB in the period January to March 2016, and specific objectives are to analyze the areas that have found greater number of dengue notifications epidemiological surveillance and the affected age group, assessed the signs and symptoms most often in cases that were reported to the epidemiological surveillance, discuss the control measures to be carried out in endemic areas. It is a study of documentary and descriptive, with quantitative approach, using secondary data source, by accessing the compulsory notification forms of dengue SINAN System (Notifiable Diseases Information). Because it is a descriptive quantitative study, the data analysis was done by removing significant SINAN data, access to surveillance of the municipality of Sousa / PB. The sample consisted of 643 cases of compulsory notification of dengue reported in the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 March 2016. The results and discussions were: Figure 1, it was observed that there was an increase in the number of dengue cases reported during each month, where you see the great difference for the month of March compared to the previous months, because in the month of March were recorded 509 new cases of dengue (79%) in the municipality. In Figure 2 it was observed that, for females were recorded 391 cases (61%), while for males 252 cases (39%). Figure 3, in the municipality of Sousa / PB there were 553 (86%) cases of dengue reported in SINAN at the Regional Hospital Sousa. We conclude that this study had achieved their intended goals because through the data obtained by SINAN identified himself what he wanted in the study.