Table 2 Pulmonary tuberculosis and AIDS data and the HDI and GI in five macro-regions of Brazil
From: Social determinants of pulmonary tuberculosis in Brazil: an ecological study
Variable | Brazilian regions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | North | Northeast | Southeast | South | Midwest | |||||
449 cities | 1792 cities | 1668 cities | 1188 cities | 463 cities | ||||||
HDI | GI | HDI | GI | HDI | GI | HDI | GI | HDI | GI | |
0.60 | 0.57 | 0.59 | 0.53 | 0.69 | 0.47 | 0.71 | 0.46 | 0.68 | 0,50 | |
Inhabitants | 15,864,454 | 53,071,442 | 80,364,410 | 27,386,891 | 14,044,767 | |||||
PTB cases (N) | 7167 | 20,889 | 31,733 | 8979 | 3151 | |||||
PTB new cases (N) | 6791 | 19,623 | 30,863 | 8459 | 2993 | |||||
PTB incidence rate | 23.7 | 21.9 | 21.9 | 26.9 | 18.2 | |||||
Cities with no new PTB cases | 106 | 380 | 542 | 535 | 170 | |||||
Cure (total n of cases) | 5234 | 13,925 | 22,219 | 6089 | 2118 | |||||
Cure(%) | 85.5 | 55.3 | 50.7 | 40.6 | 44.5 | |||||
Lost to follow-up (N) | 798 | 2516 | 4240 | 1169 | 329 | |||||
Lost to follow-up(%) | 11.7 | 12.8 | 13.7 | 13.8 | 10.9 | |||||
Relapse (N) | 339 | 1385 | 2145 | 791 | 167 | |||||
Relapse (%) | 2.9 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.2 | |||||
AIDS incidence rate | 8.8 | 6.2 | 10.3 | 11.3 | 9.5 | |||||
Death due to PTB rate (N) | 330 | 1247 | 1171 | 1133 | 354 | |||||
Death due to PTB rate | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.8 | |||||