Aspectos epidemiológicos da tuberculose no sistema prisional em São José do Rio Preto/SP (2007 a 2011)

Abstract

Introduction: Tuberculosis constitutes nowadays a very important “pandemic”, considering the dissemination situation as a relevant health problem in prisons, not only as incidence and prevalence, but also by its resistant form frequency and in HIV co-infection. Objective: epidemiologic situation analysis of TB in São José do Rio Preto/SP prison system notified from 2007 to 2011. Methods: epidemiologic analytic descriptive study retrospective cohort-like realized by document analysis of notified TB cases in prison population in São José do Rio Preto/SP. Data analysis was made by incidence calculation, relative risk and confidence interval, adopting significance level of 95%. Results: of the 770 TB cases notified from 2007 to 2011, 16,6% occurred in prison population. The incidence of TB in prison population is higher than general population in the whole study, mostly in 2009. The risk of an inmate acquire TB is about 30 times higher than general population, and in 2009 this risk was 43,2 (29,3-54,7) times higher. Conclusions: the health system isolation in correctional institutions observed shows the fragility in judiciary and health public politics, besides the indefiniteness of responsibility, coordination, resources and the inexistence of organization logistics of actions among different levels of the health system.