Spatial analysis of risk areas for the development of tuberculosis and treatment outcomes.

OBJECTIVES

to identify risk clusters for the occurrence of tuberculosis and its treatment outcomes.

METHODS

ecological study, in a city in Maranhão, using data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System. Point density analysis and isotonic scanning techniques were used to identify areas with the highest occurrence of treatment outcomes and identify risk areas for possible tuberculosis cases.

RESULTS

most tuberculosis cases occurred in the male, adult, brown-skinned population. Also, most of the reported cases were classified as pulmonary and as new cases that progressed to a cure. The areas with the highest density of cure, death and abandonment are located in the central region of the city.

CONCLUSIONS

the central region of the urban area of the city, with high demographic density and poor sanitary and socioeconomic conditions, presented a greater cluster of tuberculosis cases.