Inequalities of visceral leishmaniasis case-fatality in Brazil: A multilevel modeling considering space, time, individual and contextual factors

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 15; no. 7; p. e0009567
• Main Authors: Cota, Gláucia, Erber, Astrid Christine, Schernhammer, Eva, Simões, Taynãna Cesar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 01.07.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Access; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Brazil; Datasets; Demographic variables; Diseases; Economic development; Economics; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Forecasts and trends; Garbage collection; Gender; Health surveillance; Infections; Information systems; Kala-azar; Low income groups; Low level; Malnutrition; Medical diagnosis; Medical personnel; Medicine and Health Sciences; Modelling; Mortality; Parasitic diseases; Patient outcomes; Patients; People and places; Population; Poverty; Professional ethics; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Social Sciences; Spatial analysis; Spatial distribution; Tropical diseases; Variables; Vector-borne diseases; Visceral leishmaniasis; Brazil; Bangladesh; India

Background In Brazil, case-fatality from visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is high and characterized by wide differences between the various political-economic units, the federated units (FUs). This study was designed to investigate the association between factors at the both FU and individual levels with...