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Regional differences and temporal trend analysis of Hepatitis B in Brazil | BMC Public Health

Burden disease related to chronic HBV infection is increasing worldwide. Monitoring Hepatitis B occurrence is difficult due to intrinsic characteristics of the infection, nonetheless analyzing this information improves strategic planning towards reducing the burden related to chronic infection. In this line of thought, this study aims to analyze national and regional epidemiology of Hepatitis B and it’s temporal trends based on Brazilian reported cases. Data obtained from the Brazilian National Notifiable Disease Reporting System (SINAN) from 2007 to 2018 were classified by infection status with an original classification algorithm, had their temporal trends analyzed by Joinpoint regression model and were correlated with gender, age and region. Of the 487,180 hepatitis B cases notified to SINAN, 97.65% had it infection status correctly classified by the new algorithm. Hepatitis B detection rate, gender and age-distribution were different among Brazilian regions. Overall, detectio

A Call To Action: Reestablishment Of The U S -Mexico Border Health Commission

In the wake of the pandemic, a restored U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission endowed with greater funding and a firm binational commitment to strengthened cooperation on border health could be an even greater asset than it has been in the past.   A view from U.S. side of the border wall in Nogales, Ariz., in November 2017. (Peg Hunter / Flickr) This post originally appeared on the Health Affairs Blog on July 30, 2021. If ever a spotlight was put on the need for collaboration and a coordinated U.S. and Mexican response to the shared health vulnerabilities along the U.S.-Mexico border, the past year and a half of COVID-19’s scourge of border communities is it.

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