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0003/2019 - Prevention of physical disability by leprosy in Brazil: Historic analysis.
Prevenção de incapacidade física por hanseníase no Brasil: Análise histórica.

Author:

• Aleksandra Rosendo dos Santos - Santos, AR - <alegramos@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8104-0917

Co-author(s):

• Eliane Ignotti - Ignotti, E. - <eliane.ignotti@unemat.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-1856


Abstract:

Guidelines for the prevention of physical disabilities due to leprosy have been gaining prominence in the control of the disease in addition to the multidrug therapy. The objective of this study is to describe the chronological changes in the technical guidelines for the prevention of physical disabilities due to leprosy in Brazil. It is a historical account based on official documents of the Brazilian health agencies. All the decrees, ordinances and manuals that mentioned assessment and prevention of disabilities, published between 1962 and 2016 were included. The documents established the clinical, technical, social, emotional and social criteria that directed preventive actions in health institutions. The publications were coordinated by the Ministry of Health and adapted over the yearsa conceptual, political, strategic and assistance point of view. The guidelines covered, mainly, the activities of neurological assessment and the degree of physical incapacity, techniques of prevention of incapacities and self-care. Physical disabilities reflect the quality of access to diagnosis, follow-up of cases during treatment and post-discharge through cure. The health services has to be organized for all aspects involving disease, and not only for the diagnosis and multidrug therapy supply.

Keywords:

leprosy; prevention; disability; documents

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Santos, AR, Ignotti, E.. Prevention of physical disability by leprosy in Brazil: Historic analysis.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Jan). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/prevention-of-physical-disability-by-leprosy-in-brazil-historic-analysis/17077?id=17077&id=17077



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