. Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Florianópolis (SC) Brasil.
. Programa de Educação Tutorial Conexões de Saberes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Florianópolis (SC) Brasil.
J Bras Pneumol. 2021 Feb 24;47(2):e20200178. doi: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20200178. eCollection 2021.
Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem deeply influenced by inequality. The present study used data from the Brazilian Tuberculosis Case Registry Database in order to compare the rates of tuberculosis treatment success, loss to follow-up, and tuberculosis mortality between the homeless population and the general population of Brazil. The likelihood of tuberculosis treatment success was reduced by approximately 50% in the homeless population. In addition, the rate of loss to follow-up was 2.9 times higher in the homeless population than in the general population, and the rate of tuberculosis mortality was 2.5 times higher in the former.
结核病仍然是一个主要的公共卫生问题,深受不平等因素的影响。本研究利用巴西结核病病例登记数据库的数据,比较了无家可归人群和巴西一般人群的结核病治疗成功率、失访率和结核病死亡率。无家可归人群的结核病治疗成功率降低了约 50%。此外,无家可归人群的失访率是一般人群的 2.9 倍,结核病死亡率是一般人群的 2.5 倍。