Socioeconomic determinants of leprosy in Brazilian municipalities: an ecological study؆
Aroldo de Oliveira Gomes Golineli, Maria Cecília Valsechi Belli, Guilherme Henrique Lourenço, Olympio Belli, Hélio Amante Miot · 2026
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Aroldo de Oliveira Gomes Golineli and co-authors present, in a 2026 letter, an ecological study of leprosy across towns and cities in Brazil. Leprosy has fallen yet stays clustered in poorer areas, and by 2024 new cases had fallen to 22,129, down from 31,064 in 2014, based on figures the authors report.
Town-level data came from national sources, plus the 2022 census and measures of income, schooling, housing, and social progress. The study looks at how these shared conditions line up with where cases appear. Such maps can guide health teams to places where poverty and weak services let the disease persist, even as national counts improve.
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| CREATOR | Aroldo de Oliveira Gomes Golineli, Maria Cecília Valsechi Belli, Guilherme Henrique Lourenço, Olympio Belli, Hélio Amante Miot |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19883 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |