Epidemiological Profile of Tuberculosis Cases in Belém-Pará, between the years 2018-2022

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infectious and contagious disease caused by the etiological agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Koch’s bacillus, representing a significant challenge to the public health service on a global scale. Thus, the objective of the present work was to describe the epidemiological profile of the cases of Tuberculosis in Belém-PA between the years of 2018 and 2022. This is a retrospective, descriptive and quantitative study. The secondary data was obtained through SINAN (System of Information on Notification Grievance, in English). The variables considered in the analysis include sociodemographic aspects, clinical forms of the disease, types of entry into the health system and the situation of the closed diagnosis. The results point out about 7,481 new cases, with higher prevalence between men (63.13%), with an age gap between 20 and 39 years old (42.32%), brown-skinned (71.73%) and with complete high school education (19.95%). About the clinical form, the pulmonary (83.24%) obtained with higher prevalence, and its percentual of cure was about 59.41%. Therefore, there is a need for strategies geared to the control and interruption of the disease’s transmission chain through the training of primary care professionals and close monitoring through active search